METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT

摘要

Various methods and systems for using a distributed storage to its maximum bandwidth, maximum bandwidth Broadcast-like streams, fast segment reconstruction, aggregating erasure-coded fragments, hybrid open-loop and closed-loop erasure-coded fragment retrieval process, controlling the rate of a pull protocol, distributing pull protocol requests via a relay server, requesting fragments without specifying the source address, broadcast-like effect using fractional-storage servers, obtaining a broadcast-like streaming content, erasure-coded content assembly and retransmission, fast retrieval and progressive retransmission of content, receiving streaming content from servers located around the globe, combining push and pull protocols, switching from pull mode to push mode, load-balancing an asymmetrical distributed erasure-coded system, latency based selection of fractional-storage servers, random server selection, and bandwidth amplification using replicated fragments.