Streaming server

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2006-09-05

2006-09-05

Mofiz, Apu (Department: 2165)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

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07103595

ABSTRACT:
A media server having at least one of a stride-based storage device space allocation scheme, stride-based method of striping data across multiple storage devices for continuous media streaming, server-based smoothing of variable bit-rate streams, distributed architecture, and fault tolerance.

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