(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2016/0337426A1 Shribman Et Al
US 20160337426A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2016/0337426A1 Shribman et al. (43) Pub. Date: Nov. 17, 2016 (54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMING (52) U.S. Cl. CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE SERVERS CPC ........... H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L (71) Applicant: Hols NETWORKS LTD., Netanya 65/608 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01) IL (72) Inventors: Derry Shribman, Tel Aviv (IL): Ofer Vilenski, Moshav Hadar Am (IL) (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. No.: 15/089,721 A system and a method for media streaming from multiple (22) Filed: Apr. 4, 2016 Sources are disclosed. A content requesting client device accesses a server to receive a list of available sources that Related U.S. Application Data may include multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) (60) Provisional application No. 62/161,553, filed on May and independent servers. Based on a pre-set criteria, such as 14, 2015, provisional application No. 62/173,411, the source delivery performance and cost, the client device filed on Jun. 10, 2015, provisional application No. part1tions the content into parts, allocates a source to each 62/210,081, filed on Aug. 26, 2015, provisional ap- part, and simultaneously receives media streams of the plication No. 623.08.29ified on Mar 15, 2016. content parts from the allocated sources. The server may be s1 - us s a Video-on-Demand (VOD) server, and the content may be Publication Classification a single file of a video data, Such as a movie. The delivery performance of the used sources is measured during the (51) Int.
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