Patent ID: 8650602

Claim:
A computerized method for input queued content switching across different content types, the method comprising: generating, by a first computing device, a retrieval sequence using a plurality of content requests, the content requests being based on content location information; requesting, by the first computing device, content of a first type to be queued at a first content source and content of a second type to be queued at a second content source using the retrieval sequence; generating, at the first computing device, a content stream of the content of the first type, the content of the second type, and proxy content, the generating comprising: selecting the content of the first type from a queue associated with the first content source using the retrieval sequence, transferring the content of the first type from the queue associated with the first content source to an output buffer, terminating transfer of the content of the first type from the queue associated with the first content source to the output buffer, and initiating transfer of the content of the second type from a queue associated with the second content source to the output buffer, by selecting the content of the second type from the queue associated with the second content source using the retrieval sequence; selecting the proxy content from a proxy content source using the retrieval sequence and transferring the proxy content to the output buffer without first storing the proxy content in a storage module, when the content of the second type is unavailable in the queue associated with the second content source; and transmitting the content of the first type and the content of the second type in the output buffer to a client device when the content of the second type is available; and transmitting the content of the first type and the proxy content in the output buffer to the client device when the content of the second type is unavailable.