Dilemma of the Day - US Patent 7,529,806

Finally, after almost 10 years(!) in prosecution US patent 7,529,806 has been granted for my solution to the media streaming/download dilemma: the file should be large to provide complete movie experience, AND, the file should be small to enable fast download.

Briefly, here's how it was invented:

After identifying and solving the dilemma (separation in space), I put together a five-element diagram, which showed a need for a new file "packaging" (payload) process and a matching control mechanism. Then, having looked into various alternatives, we developed an example implementation using XML and java.
Voilà!