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App. No. 13/449,218

VARIABLE FIDELITY MEDIA PROVISION SYSTEM

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13/449,218
Abstract

A variable fidelity media provision system and method are provided herein.

Claims (5)

1 . A method of distributing a layered media stream via a managed server and a peer-to-peer network, the method comprising:

hosting a media content stream comprising a plurality of media information layers, wherein at least two of said plurality of media information layers may be combined into a renderable bitstream, and wherein layers in combination comprise an improvement to the renderable bitstream;

making at least one selected layer of media information available to a client; and

making at least one unselected layer of media information available to a distribution peer within the peer-to-peer network so as to make said at least one unselected layer available to other peers within the peer-to-peer network from said distribution peer.

2 - 50 . (canceled)