摘要 |
Method and systems including a plurality of assembling peer clients streaming content from at least one streaming server at an aggregated first rate; and a plurality of peer storage-and-computing elements distributively storing a plurality of pushed content fragments associated with the streaming content. Wherein as a result of an event rendering the at least one server incapable of sustaining the first rate, at least some of the assembling peer clients begin to retrieve content fragments from the peer storage-and-computing elements in order to continue the streaming.
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