Patents Assigned to Network Appliance
  • Pre-computing streaming media payload method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6742082
    Abstract: A method for pre-computing a streaming media payload in a server includes receiving a data file from a streaming media server, determining a plurality of data packets from the data file, dividing the plurality of data packets into a plurality of sets of data packets, forming a plurality of data objects, each data object comprising a set of data packets from the plurality of sets of data packets, and storing the plurality of data objects in a server memory, wherein each data object is individually accessible from the server memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Network Appliance
    Inventors: Jason Lango, Ram Kesavan, Konstantinos Roussos, Robert Tsai, Christopher Wagner