System for recursive recombination of streaming interactive video
View Patent ↗A plurality of servers whose video output is coupled to video compression apparatus that transmits streaming interactive video to a plurality of users, with a feedback loop whereby the streaming interactive video is recursively combined within the video output of the plurality of servers.
1. A method for streaming video from a hosting service center comprising:
executing a twitch video game or real-time application on one or more servers of the hosting service center thereby producing interactive video, the twitch video game or real-time application being played or used by one or more users on one or more corresponding client devices remote to the hosting service center;
compressing the interactive video to generate compressed interactive video;
transmitting the compressed interactive video to the one or more users over a packetized network, wherein the compressed interactive video is compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency, between a user input on a client device and a response to the user input appearing on a display of the client device, of 90 milliseconds when transmitted over a maximum distance of 1500 miles from the hosting service center; and
recursively routing one or more video outputs of one server into a different server at the hosting service center.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising delaying the recursively routed one or more video outputs in a delay buffer.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising multicasting the recursively routed one or more video outputs.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the recursively routed one or more video outputs comprises uncompressed video.
5. The method of claim 1 further comprising compressing the recursively routed one or more video outputs.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein video sent from a first server to a user is adaptively compressed.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein video sent from a first server to a user is not adaptively compressed.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein the adaptive compression adapts a data rate in accordance with a channel capacity.
9. The method of claim 6 wherein the adaptive compression adapts an error correction technique in accordance with a channel error characteristics.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the packetized network includes the Internet.
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, which, when executed, is operable to:
run a twitch video game or real-time application on one or more servers of a hosting service center thereby producing interactive video, the twitch video game or real-time application being played or used by one or more users on one or more corresponding client devices remote to the hosting service center;
compress the interactive video to generate compressed interactive video;
transmit the compressed interactive video to the one or more users over a packetized network, wherein the compressed interactive video is compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency, between a user input on a client device and a response to the user input appearing on a display of the client device, of 90 milliseconds when transmitted over a maximum distance of 1500 miles from the hosting service center; and
recursively route one or more video outputs of one server into a different service at the hosting service center.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the computer program, when executed, is further operable to delay the recursively routed one or more video outputs in a delay buffer.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the computer program, when executed, is further operable to multicast the recursively routed one or more video outputs.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the recursively routed one or more video outputs comprises uncompressed video.