Method and system for delivering streaming media to fixed clients or mobile clients with multiple description bitstreams

摘要

A method and system for streaming media data to a fixed client and/or a mobile client. In one method embodiment, the present invention recites encoding media data to be streamed to a client into a first multiple description bitstream and into a second multiple description bitstream. The present embodiment then recites distributing the first and second multiple description bitstreams to a plurality of servers placed at intermediate nodes throughout a network such that a client is provided with access to the media data via a plurality of transmission paths.