GB2469107B - Method and apparatus for distributing data - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for distributing data

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GB2469107B
GB2469107B GB0905721A GB0905721A GB2469107B GB 2469107 B GB2469107 B GB 2469107B GB 0905721 A GB0905721 A GB 0905721A GB 0905721 A GB0905721 A GB 0905721A GB 2469107 B GB2469107 B GB 2469107B
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distributing data
distributing
data
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GB2469107A (en
Inventor
Chris Houghton
Jiri Fajtl
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LIVESTATION Ltd
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LIVESTATION Ltd
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17309—Transmission or handling of upstream communications
    • H04N7/17318—Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H20/00—Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast
    • H04H20/20—Arrangements for broadcast or distribution of identical information via plural systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/231—Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
    • H04N21/23106—Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion involving caching operations
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/238—Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. adapting the transmission rate of a video stream to network bandwidth; Processing of multiplex streams
    • H04N21/2381—Adapting the multiplex stream to a specific network, e.g. an Internet Protocol [IP] network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
    • H04N21/26275—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists for distributing content or additional data in a staggered manner, e.g. repeating movies on different channels in a time-staggered manner in a near video on demand system
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/60—Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client, e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
    • H04N21/63—Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients or between remote clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing
    • H04N21/643—Communication protocols
    • H04N21/64322—IP
GB0905721A 2009-04-02 2009-04-02 Method and apparatus for distributing data Expired - Fee Related GB2469107B (en)

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GB2469107B true GB2469107B (en) 2015-01-21

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Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6330252B1 (en) * 1997-06-24 2001-12-11 Hitachi, Ltd. Data broadcasting system for performing highspeed data transmission, data broadcasting apparatus and data receiving apparatus for performing high speed data transmission
WO2002049360A1 (en) * 2000-12-13 2002-06-20 THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG A body corporate of Hong Kong SAR Method and system for delivering media selections through a network
EP1433323A1 (en) * 2001-07-31 2004-06-30 Dinastech IPR Limited Method for delivering data over a network
EP1781034A1 (en) * 2004-07-27 2007-05-02 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Pseudo video-on-demand system, pseudo video-on-demand system control method, and program and recording medium used for the same
EP2100461A2 (en) * 2006-12-20 2009-09-16 Thomson Research Funding Corporation Video data loss recovery using low bit rate stream in an iptv system

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6330252B1 (en) * 1997-06-24 2001-12-11 Hitachi, Ltd. Data broadcasting system for performing highspeed data transmission, data broadcasting apparatus and data receiving apparatus for performing high speed data transmission
WO2002049360A1 (en) * 2000-12-13 2002-06-20 THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG A body corporate of Hong Kong SAR Method and system for delivering media selections through a network
EP1433323A1 (en) * 2001-07-31 2004-06-30 Dinastech IPR Limited Method for delivering data over a network
EP1781034A1 (en) * 2004-07-27 2007-05-02 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Pseudo video-on-demand system, pseudo video-on-demand system control method, and program and recording medium used for the same
EP2100461A2 (en) * 2006-12-20 2009-09-16 Thomson Research Funding Corporation Video data loss recovery using low bit rate stream in an iptv system

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