Peer-to-web media broadcasting and managing online publisher computers

• Main Authors: KIRKBY RONALD LOREN, STEVENS RONALD WILLIAM, SLAGBOOM KEVIN JUSTIN, O'CONNOR SEAMUS GREGORY DAVIS, ASPESTRAND BRYN ADAM, SMITH COLBY JAMES MAGEE, BLACK TYLER JAMES, HARLEY LEONARD, ORAAS BRIAN CHARLES, HANSEN DYLAN JOHN, LOUCKS JAMES ORMOND
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.11.2010
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, including a plurality of publisher computers, for broadcasting media over the Internet, each publisher computer including a video transcoder, and an image processor, a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing broadcasted media, an application server for transmitting web page content to HTTP web client computers, including a database management system for storing and retrieving publisher authentication information, at least one switchboard server, for managing TCP/IP connections between online publisher computers and HTTP web client computers, a load balancer for distributing incoming client requests among the at least one switchboard server, and a storage volume that is mounted on each of the at least one switchboard servers, for caching portions of media received from publishing computers. A method and computer-readable storage media are also described and claimed.