Moving picture file transmitting server and method of controlling operation of same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9219795-B2
Application number	US-201414311097-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2014
Priority date	Sep 29, 2008
Publication date	Dec 22, 2015
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015

Abstract

A moving picture suitable for display on a mobile telephone is displayed comparatively quickly. When a moving picture is requested, a leading segment of the moving picture is converted. The leading segment has an amount of data which, after the conversion, is less than the amount of data that is displayable on the mobile telephone that issued the request. A succeeding segment, which can be converted while the leading segment is being transmitted to the mobile telephone and viewed by the user of the mobile telephone, is converted. If there is a request for the succeeding segment after the leading segment is viewed, the conversion of the succeeding segment will be finished by the time of the request for succeeding segment. As a result, the succeeding segment can be transmitted to the mobile telephone quickly, and it can be viewed rapidly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a computer system, a request for a moving picture file from a client terminal;
converting, by the computer system, a leading segment of the moving picture file;
transmitting, by the computer system, the converted leading segment to the client terminal;
converting, by the computer system, a succeeding segment of the moving picture file that follows the leading segment;
receiving, by the computer…

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Tsubaki Hisayoshi

Classifications

• H04L67/32 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/2343 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/41407

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/25808

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/2662

  Electricity · mapped topic