Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 10412141, I need to access the full patent text and its citations. The provided patent text includes a "Cited By" section listing "Families Citing this family," which I will interpret as forward citations to this patent, and a "Priority Applications" section and "Applications Claiming Priority" section which outline the patent family but don't explicitly list prior art. However, the "Description" section also mentions and incorporates by reference several U.S. patent applications, which serve as prior art. I will focus on these explicitly referenced patent applications within the description and any references listed on the Google Patents page as "Prior art keywords" or "Prior art date," if distinct from the description's incorporated references.

Since direct searching of the USPTO database for prior art for a specific patent is not something I can perform directly in real-time, I will rely on the provided patent text from Google Patents to extract the cited prior art.

Based on the provided patent text, the most relevant prior art mentioned and incorporated by reference in the description of US10412141 are:

Explicitly Referenced Prior Art (Server-Driven Approaches):

1. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/323,044

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/323,044 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: The filing date is not explicitly stated in the provided text, but it's referenced as a "server driven approach" in the background section.
   • Brief Description: This application describes a "server driven approach" where "the server parses the data file and determines which data to send." This approach prioritizes network efficiency and flexibility in playback.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): Given its nature as a "server driven approach," this reference would generally anticipate aspects of claims related to the server's role in determining and sending data. However, the claims of US10412141 primarily focus on a "receiver-driven approach." Therefore, this reference is more likely to be considered for obviousness arguments under 35 U.S.C. § 103, rather than direct anticipation under § 102, as it presents a different architectural paradigm. If any claims in US10412141 broadly cover aspects of parsing data or sending determined data by a server, then those claims could potentially be implicated. Without the full text of 11/323,044, precise claim mapping for anticipation is not possible.

2. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/323,062

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/323,062 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text.
   • Brief Description: Similar to 11/323,044, this is identified as part of "server driven approaches" where the server handles data parsing and determination for sending.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): As with 11/323,044, this reference describes a server-driven paradigm. It is less likely to directly anticipate claims of US10412141 that are focused on receiver-driven playback and trick-play functions. Its relevance would be more in the context of obviousness or as background art.

3. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/327,543

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/327,543 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text.
   • Brief Description: Another example of "server driven approaches" for progressive playback systems.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): Similar to the above, direct anticipation of US10412141's receiver-driven claims by this server-driven reference is unlikely.

4. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,604

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,604 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text.
   • Brief Description: Described as a "server driven approach" for handling multimedia files over a network.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): Again, due to the fundamental difference in approach (server-driven vs. receiver-driven), direct anticipation of US10412141's claims by this reference is improbable.

Prior Art Related to Container Formats:

1. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/016,184

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/016,184 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text, but cited in the context of container formats that can include menu information and multiple media sequences.
   • Brief Description: This application is mentioned as describing "container formats similar to" those that can be supported by the progressive playback system, and that can include multiple titles, audio tracks, and/or subtitle tracks. The file parser in US10412141 is described as obtaining menu information and information concerning media sequences from files such as those described in this application.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): Claims 1 and 12, for example, involve "obtaining information from a remote server system describing at least one video track, multiple audio tracks, and multiple subtitle tracks." If 11/016,184 describes a file format and method for storing and making available such information, it could potentially anticipate these aspects of the claims. The claims also involve selecting specific tracks and requesting headers, which could be anticipated if the referenced patent application details such mechanisms within its container format. The "identifying a starting location within the media sequence further includes displaying menu information, receiving a user instruction indicative of the selection of the media sequence" definition within the specification could also be implicated.

2. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/198,142

   • Full Citation: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/198,142 (specific publication/patent number not provided in the excerpt).
   • Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text.
   • Brief Description: Similar to 11/016,184, this application describes container formats that can include menu information and multiple media sequences, which are relevant to how the file parser obtains information in US10412141.
   • Potential Anticipated Claim(s) (under 35 U.S.C. § 102): Similar to 11/016,184, this reference could potentially anticipate aspects of claims 1 and 12 related to obtaining information about video, audio, and subtitle tracks, as well as the underlying file structure for menu information and multiple media sequences.

Additional Prior Art - "Prior art keywords" and "Prior art date" from Google Patents:

The Google Patents page for US10412141 lists a "Prior art date" of 2007-01-05. This date corresponds to the priority date of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/883,659, which US10412141 claims priority from. Therefore, this provisional application itself would be prior art against any claims in US10412141 that are not fully supported by it.

Beyond the specific patent applications referenced in the description, to provide a comprehensive analysis of "most relevant prior art," a full review of all backward citations (patents cited by US10412141) would typically be required, along with an assessment of their relevance to the independent claims. The provided text does not offer a list of such backward citations beyond the family information and the incorporated references. A comprehensive search of the USPTO database for cited prior art is a standard step in such an analysis.

For the purpose of this analysis, focusing solely on the explicitly mentioned and incorporated references within the provided patent text, the prior art most likely to anticipate claims of US10412141 would be the patent applications describing container formats (11/016,184 and 11/198,142), as they directly relate to the structure of the media files from which information about tracks and menus is obtained, as claimed in US10412141. The "server-driven approaches" would be less likely to anticipate the receiver-driven claims of US10412141 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 but could be relevant for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103.