Appeal No. 2005-0490
Application 09/399,065
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for streaming multi-media content. Multiple versions
of model data tailored for different operating environments and
differentiated in accordance with values of at least one
operating characteristic of a remote requesting client computer
system are stored in a multi-media content providing server. A
multi-media content player of a client computer system determines
operating characteristic values for the at least one operating
characteristic of the client computer system. The multi-media
content player adaptively requests appropriate versions of
selected ones of the model data, which comprises geometry data,
based at least in part on the determined operating characteristic
values of the at least one operating characteristic of the client
computer system.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a client computer system, a method of operation
comprising:
determining operating characteristic value(s), by the client
system, for at least one operating characteristic of the client
computer system;
adaptively requesting, by the client system, streaming of
model data, comprising geometry data, from a remote content
providing server, adjusting said requesting based at least in
part on the determined operating characteristic value(s) of the
at least one operating characteristic of the client computer
system.
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