WO2013182548A1 - Method for updating electronic programme information on a user terminal - Google Patents

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WO2013182548A1
WO2013182548A1 PCT/EP2013/061450 EP2013061450W WO2013182548A1 WO 2013182548 A1 WO2013182548 A1 WO 2013182548A1 EP 2013061450 W EP2013061450 W EP 2013061450W WO 2013182548 A1 WO2013182548 A1 WO 2013182548A1
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Heiko Emser
Sebastian Schoen
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Alcatel-Lucent
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
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    • H04N21/236—Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, e.g. inserting a URL [Uniform Resource Locator] into a video stream, multiplexing software data into a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bit-rate; Assembling of a packetised elementary stream
    • H04N21/23614—Multiplexing of additional data and video streams
    • H04N21/23617—Multiplexing of additional data and video streams by inserting additional data into a data carousel, e.g. inserting software modules into a DVB carousel
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    • 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
    • H04N21/26283—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 associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
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    • 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
    • H04N21/26291—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 providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/434—Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream
    • H04N21/4348—Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
    • H04N21/4349—Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/435—Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
    • H04N21/4351—Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream involving reassembling additional data, e.g. rebuilding an executable program from recovered modules
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
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  • the invention relates to a method for updating electronic programme
  • Broadcasters of radio or television programmes generally transmit an electronic programme guide or EPG,
  • This electronic programme guide may be received and stored by user terminals, for example televisions, hard disk recorders, computers or mobile phones with TV functionality, namely DVB receiver units in general.
  • This electronic programme guide contains programme information data, which include details about television and radio programmes currently being transmitted and to be transmitted in the future. These programme information data are made available to terminals as static and dynamic parts.
  • the dynamic part is transmitted as a data stream in accordance with DVB standard ETSI EN 300 468 alongside the audio/video data of the useful signal.
  • the user terminals may then store this programme guide with the programme information data and keep it ready for the user.
  • This electronic programme guide then makes it easier, for example, to programme hard disk recorders. All that remains for the user to do is to identify from a simple menu which broadcast is to be recorded; everything else is then performed by the hard disk recorder itself.
  • the nub of the invention is in particular that an existing channel for transmitting data to the user terminal is now used to transmit electronic programme guide updates in the form of programme change information to the user terminal virtually in real time.
  • the channel is used in this respect to transmit the fragmented audio/video signals.
  • the user terminals receive new files from a centrally arranged data fragmenter. These data fragments then serve as a vehicle for transmitting updates to the programme information data previously made available to the user terminals by a computer. For this purpose, first of all an update in the form of programme change information is made available to the data fragmenter. The data fragmenter then packs this programme change information into the metadata or other parts of the data fragments.
  • this programme change information is made available to the user terminals in the data fragments together with the audio/video fragments.
  • the user terminals may in turn extract the programme change information from the data fragments.
  • the programme information data saved on the terminal are then updated by means of this programme change information.
  • the invention is advantageous in particular when an internet connection over the mobile radio network is used as the data link between the fragmenter and the user terminal.
  • the first data link for transmitting the complete electronic programme guide may straightforwardly also be the same remote data link which is used to transmit the data fragments to the user terminal (second remote data link).
  • the size of the data to be transmitted is manageable, such that no transmission capacity bottlenecks ought to arise.
  • a plurality of data fragments sent at different times each comprise identical programme change information. This thus provides the possibility of programme change information being "carried along" several times to the terminal, so distinctly increasing the probability that at least one of the vehicles may correctly reach the user terminal and thus result in successful updating.
  • each data fragment may itself also include the programme change information relevant to that data fragment.
  • each data fragment includes the details regarding current start time, finish time, title, and/or adult content warning pertaining to thai broadcast of which the respective data fragment is itself a part.
  • each data fragment always itself carries its own change information with it. In this way it is possible to ensure that the electronic programme guide is always kept up to date on the user terminal with regard to the broadcast just playing. Possibly faulty reception of a data fragment no longer has such a serious effect on the up-to-date nature of the electronic programme guide, since updating can in principle be re-verified with every newly received data fragment. This virtually rules out the possibility of a broadcast playing while the programme information data stored in the user terminal do not match this playing broadcast.
  • the video signal may be coded in various video bandwidths and thus different quality levels and be available as a video stream.
  • the fragmentation unit then divides this video stream into video packets (fragments), with each video packet possibly having one bandwidth associated with it.
  • These video packets are encrypted as required and for example kept ready for retrieval on web servers (storage units) via URLs.
  • the fragmenter further creates an index file, which is also saved on the web server and keeps the URLs of the individual fragments ready.
  • the user firstly loads the index file-, in order to find the URLs of the individual fragments with the respective bandwidths. Downloading of the first fragment then proceeds by way of the identified URL. During this downloading, it is possible to identify which bandwidth is actually available to the user. Should there be differences from the original bandwidth, a fragment corresponding to a different bandwidth can be downloaded next.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of an arrangement for carrying out the method according to the invention
  • Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the structure of programme information data and programme change information
  • Figure 3 is a schematic representation of the procedure for fragmenting the video content and supplementing it with programme information change data.
  • Figure 1 shows a terminal 7, for example a mobile phone, on which a live-transmission of a football match may be displayed. This is stylised by the football. To this end. the mobile radio telephone 7 receives a coded and fragmented video signal 1' via a mobile internet connection 10".
  • the football match is in principle provided by a video source 9, which transmits a ready coded video signal 1 , for example in MPEG-4-format, via a data line 10 to a data fragmenter 3.
  • the data fragmenter 3 comprises a fragmenting unit 4, which generates a plurality of individual data packets from the streamed video signal 1 , which are then transmitted individually over the mobile internet connection 10" to the user terminal 7,
  • the data fragmenter 3 may comprise an encryption unit 5, such that the fragmented video content can only be viewed by an end user when his or her terminal 7 has a specific key for decrypting the coded fragments. Individual fragments may be buffered at least for a short time in a storage unit 6 of the data fragmenter 3.
  • a central computer 11 makes an electronic programme guide 2 (EPG) available. This is transmitted to the mobile radio telephone 7 over an internet link 10' at regular intervals for example via an http session. The mobile radio device 7 then saves the electronic programme guide 2.
  • the electronic programme guide can be consulted at any time by the user.
  • the electronic programme guide 2 is also suitable for controlling receiving units, for example a hard disk recorder for recording desired broadcasts. If changes are made to the programme sequence, these changes would only be transmitted to the mobile radio device in the conventional method with the usual update (e.g. every couple of hours). According to the invention, the changes to the electronic programme guide 2' are transmitted to the data fragmenter 3 immediately they are announced, the data fragmenter then saving this change to the fragmented video content 1', a process that will be explained below in still greater detail.
  • Figure 2 describes the structure of the electronic programme guide in greater detail.
  • the programme sequence for the various television channels TV1 , TV2 is stored therein in table form.
  • the broadcast 1 is transmitted on the channel TV1 , this broadcast being perhaps a news broadcast.
  • This is followed at 8.15 pm for example by the main feature, for example a well-known crime series.
  • Corresponding information is also held ready for the channel TV2 and a plurality of further channels.
  • the electronic programme guide 2 may contain all the programmes receivable over the next two weeks.
  • a programme change 2' is shown here which relates to broadcast 2, which according to the original programme guide was actually supposed to be broadcast on 01.01.2012 at 8:15 pm. However, the news broadcast was extended for an important reason, meaning that broadcast 2 is not going to be played until 8.30 pm.
  • change information 2' containing the new start time for broadcast 2 is then integrated into the video transmission of broadcast 1 , specifically into the coded and fragmented video content 1'.
  • the user terminal 7 W itself is then able to compile the new programme from the original programme guide 2 saved in the mobile radio device 7 and the change information 2',
  • FIG. 3 shows the sequence of fragmentation and transmission of video content together with the programme change information.
  • the video content 1 is initially transmitted in coded but as yet unfragmented form to the fragmenter 3.
  • the video content may comprise individual frames, provided that it is in the data format MPEG-4, for example.
  • the frames may be so- called I -frames and P-frames.
  • the data fragmenter 3 then splits the streamed video content 1 into several or multiple video fragments 1', which are generated gradually and also saved in the storage means 6 of the data fragmenter. These data fragments T are gradually retrieved by the mobile radio device 7. Such data fragments 1 ' may have a playback time of 6 seconds, for example. The playback time is however predeterminable and may be varied.
  • each of the video fragments 1' then includes in a metadata area the programme change information 2' currently to be sent, which is thus sent directly to the mobile radio device together with the video fragments 1 '. It is clear that information about the programme change can in this way be sent very quickly to the mobile radio device. Even brief changes, such as may arise simply as a result of live transmissions overrunning slightly, can be taken into account thereby.
  • the hard disk recorder can in this respect then be controlled more precisely.

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A method for updating electronic programme information data (2) on a user terminal (7), the electronic programme information data (2) being transmitted at defined times from a central computer (11) over a first remote data link (10') to the user terminal (7) and stored there for further use. the programme information data (2) stored on the user terminal (7) being updated by means of programme change information (2'), the programme change information (2') being transmitted in data fragments which contain fragmented video content, over a second remote data link (10") to the user terminal (7).

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Method for updating electronic programme information on a user terminal Description
The invention relates to a method for updating electronic programme
information on a user terminal.
Broadcasters of radio or television programmes generally transmit an electronic programme guide or EPG, This electronic programme guide may be received and stored by user terminals, for example televisions, hard disk recorders, computers or mobile phones with TV functionality, namely DVB receiver units in general. This electronic programme guide contains programme information data, which include details about television and radio programmes currently being transmitted and to be transmitted in the future. These programme information data are made available to terminals as static and dynamic parts. The dynamic part is transmitted as a data stream in accordance with DVB standard ETSI EN 300 468 alongside the audio/video data of the useful signal. The user terminals may then store this programme guide with the programme information data and keep it ready for the user. This electronic programme guide then makes it easier, for example, to programme hard disk recorders. All that remains for the user to do is to identify from a simple menu which broadcast is to be recorded; everything else is then performed by the hard disk recorder itself.
Transmission technologies which take account of network usage and network
availability when transmitting data, such as for example HTTP adaptive streaming, and therefore carry out fragmentation of the audio/video stream, do not include any
programme information data for updating the static EPG data.
It is the object of the present invention to ensure that the programme information data stored on the terminals is also up to date for transmission technologies other than DVB. The object underlying the invention is solved by a method according to claim 1 , the user terminal according to claim 7 and the data fragmenter according to claim 8; advantageous configurations are revealed by the subclaims.
The nub of the invention is in particular that an existing channel for transmitting data to the user terminal is now used to transmit electronic programme guide updates in the form of programme change information to the user terminal virtually in real time. In particular, the channel is used in this respect to transmit the fragmented audio/video signals. Accordingly, depending on fragment length (around every 6 seconds) the user terminals receive new files from a centrally arranged data fragmenter. These data fragments then serve as a vehicle for transmitting updates to the programme information data previously made available to the user terminals by a computer. For this purpose, first of all an update in the form of programme change information is made available to the data fragmenter. The data fragmenter then packs this programme change information into the metadata or other parts of the data fragments. In this way, this programme change information is made available to the user terminals in the data fragments together with the audio/video fragments. The user terminals on the other hand may in turn extract the programme change information from the data fragments. The programme information data saved on the terminal are then updated by means of this programme change information. The invention is advantageous in particular when an internet connection over the mobile radio network is used as the data link between the fragmenter and the user terminal. The first data link for transmitting the complete electronic programme guide may straightforwardly also be the same remote data link which is used to transmit the data fragments to the user terminal (second remote data link).
The advantage of this procedure is that substantially every few seconds a "transport means" travels from a centrally arranged data unit, namely the fragmenter, to the user terminal, which can simply take the programme change information with it. Because only the change
information (in contrast to the entire electronic programme guide) is sent, the size of the data to be transmitted is manageable, such that no transmission capacity bottlenecks ought to arise.
It may nonetheless so happen that a data fragment which is intended to "transport" the programme change information does not arrive correctly at the user terminal. This may occur for example because the data fragment made available for retrieval on the fragmenter is faulty or because data transmission of this data fragment is interrupted. Then the programme change information may possibly not arrive correctly at the user terminal, meaning that no updating can take place. To ensure that nevertheless the programme change information is transmitted correctly to the user terminal, the following refinements are preferred:
A plurality of data fragments sent at different times each comprise identical programme change information. This thus provides the possibility of programme change information being "carried along" several times to the terminal, so distinctly increasing the probability that at least one of the vehicles may correctly reach the user terminal and thus result in successful updating.
In addition, each data fragment may itself also include the programme change information relevant to that data fragment. This means in particular that each data fragment includes the details regarding current start time, finish time, title, and/or adult content warning pertaining to thai broadcast of which the respective data fragment is itself a part. Thus each data fragment always itself carries its own change information with it. In this way it is possible to ensure that the electronic programme guide is always kept up to date on the user terminal with regard to the broadcast just playing. Possibly faulty reception of a data fragment no longer has such a serious effect on the up-to-date nature of the electronic programme guide, since updating can in principle be re-verified with every newly received data fragment. This virtually rules out the possibility of a broadcast playing while the programme information data stored in the user terminal do not match this playing broadcast.
The method is particularly applicable to adaptive streaming. In this case, the video signal may be coded in various video bandwidths and thus different quality levels and be available as a video stream. The fragmentation unit then divides this video stream into video packets (fragments), with each video packet possibly having one bandwidth associated with it. These video packets are encrypted as required and for example kept ready for retrieval on web servers (storage units) via URLs. The fragmenter further creates an index file, which is also saved on the web server and keeps the URLs of the individual fragments ready. For retrieval, the user firstly loads the index file-, in order to find the URLs of the individual fragments with the respective bandwidths. Downloading of the first fragment then proceeds by way of the identified URL. During this downloading, it is possible to identify which bandwidth is actually available to the user. Should there be differences from the original bandwidth, a fragment corresponding to a different bandwidth can be downloaded next.
The invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to the figures, in which:
Figure 1 is a block diagram of an arrangement for carrying out the method according to the invention;
Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the structure of programme information data and programme change information;
Figure 3 is a schematic representation of the procedure for fragmenting the video content and supplementing it with programme information change data.
Figure 1 shows a terminal 7, for example a mobile phone, on which a live-transmission of a football match may be displayed. This is stylised by the football. To this end. the mobile radio telephone 7 receives a coded and fragmented video signal 1' via a mobile internet connection 10".
The football match is in principle provided by a video source 9, which transmits a ready coded video signal 1 , for example in MPEG-4-format, via a data line 10 to a data fragmenter 3. The data fragmenter 3 comprises a fragmenting unit 4, which generates a plurality of individual data packets from the streamed video signal 1 , which are then transmitted individually over the mobile internet connection 10" to the user terminal 7, In addition, the data fragmenter 3 may comprise an encryption unit 5, such that the fragmented video content can only be viewed by an end user when his or her terminal 7 has a specific key for decrypting the coded fragments. Individual fragments may be buffered at least for a short time in a storage unit 6 of the data fragmenter 3.
A central computer 11 makes an electronic programme guide 2 (EPG) available. This is transmitted to the mobile radio telephone 7 over an internet link 10' at regular intervals for example via an http session. The mobile radio device 7 then saves the electronic programme guide 2. The electronic programme guide can be consulted at any time by the user. The electronic programme guide 2 is also suitable for controlling receiving units, for example a hard disk recorder for recording desired broadcasts. If changes are made to the programme sequence, these changes would only be transmitted to the mobile radio device in the conventional method with the usual update (e.g. every couple of hours). According to the invention, the changes to the electronic programme guide 2' are transmitted to the data fragmenter 3 immediately they are announced, the data fragmenter then saving this change to the fragmented video content 1', a process that will be explained below in still greater detail.
Figure 2 describes the structure of the electronic programme guide in greater detail. For instance, the programme sequence for the various television channels TV1 , TV2 is stored therein in table form. At 8 pm, for example, the broadcast 1 is transmitted on the channel TV1 , this broadcast being perhaps a news broadcast. This is followed at 8.15 pm for example by the main feature, for example a well-known crime series. Corresponding information is also held ready for the channel TV2 and a plurality of further channels. The electronic programme guide 2 may contain all the programmes receivable over the next two weeks.
So as not always to have to re-transmit the entire programme guide 2 to the mobile radio device 7 in the event of changes in the programme guide 2, for the purposes of the present invention it is changes to the programme sequence which are transmitted. For example, a programme change 2' is shown here which relates to broadcast 2, which according to the original programme guide was actually supposed to be broadcast on 01.01.2012 at 8:15 pm. However, the news broadcast was extended for an important reason, meaning that broadcast 2 is not going to be played until 8.30 pm. During broadcast 1 at 8 pm, change information 2' containing the new start time for broadcast 2 is then integrated into the video transmission of broadcast 1 , specifically into the coded and fragmented video content 1'. The user terminal 7 W itself is then able to compile the new programme from the original programme guide 2 saved in the mobile radio device 7 and the change information 2',
Figure 3 shows the sequence of fragmentation and transmission of video content together with the programme change information. The video content 1 is initially transmitted in coded but as yet unfragmented form to the fragmenter 3. The video content may comprise individual frames, provided that it is in the data format MPEG-4, for example. The frames may be so- called I -frames and P-frames.
The data fragmenter 3 then splits the streamed video content 1 into several or multiple video fragments 1', which are generated gradually and also saved in the storage means 6 of the data fragmenter. These data fragments T are gradually retrieved by the mobile radio device 7. Such data fragments 1 ' may have a playback time of 6 seconds, for example. The playback time is however predeterminable and may be varied. Alongside a number of frames (I, P), each of the video fragments 1' then includes in a metadata area the programme change information 2' currently to be sent, which is thus sent directly to the mobile radio device together with the video fragments 1 '. It is clear that information about the programme change can in this way be sent very quickly to the mobile radio device. Even brief changes, such as may arise simply as a result of live transmissions overrunning slightly, can be taken into account thereby. The hard disk recorder can in this respect then be controlled more precisely.

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1 . A method for updating electronic programme information data (2) on a user terminal (7), the electronic programme information data (2) being transmitted at defined times from a central computer (11 ) over a first remote data link (10') to the user terminal (7) and stored there for further use,
characterised in
that the programme information data (2) stored on the user terminal (7) are updated by means of programme change information (2'),
that the programme change information (2') is transmitted in data fragments (1 '), which contain fragmented video content, over a second remote data link (10") to the user terminal (7).
2. A method according to claim 1 ,
characterised in
that the video content (1 ) arriving in the form of a video stream is split by a data fragmenter (3) into individual data fragments (1 '), which are then sent individually over the second remote data link (10'), the data fragmenter (3) adding the programme change information (2') to the data fragments (1 ').
3. A method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterised in
that the data fragments (1 ') are transmitted to the user terminal (7), the programme change information (2') being taken from the data fragments in the user terminal (7).
4. A method according to the preceding claim,
characterised in
that metadata of the video fragments (Γ) include the programme change information (2'), and in that the programme information data (2) stored on the user terminal (7) are modified by way of the programme change information (2')
5. A method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterised in
that a plurality of data fragments (V, 1 ", 1 "'), which are each sent at
different times, contain identical programme change information (2').
6. A method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterised in
that each data fragment 1 ", 1 "') contains programme change information (2) relevant to said data fragment.
7. A user terminal (7), which is designed to receive programme information data (2) from a central computer (11 ) over a first remote data link (10') and store said data for further use and to receive video content (1 ) over a second remote data link (10"),
characterised in
that it is designed to update the stored programme information data (2) using programme change information (2') and to receive over the second remote data link (10") the programme change information (2') as information inserted into data fragments (1 ') containing the video content (1 ) and take it from the data fragments
(1 ·).
8. A data fragmenter (3), which splits incoming video content (1 ) into individual data fragments (1 ') and transmits them to a user terminal,
characterised in
that it inserts into the data fragments information by means of which programme information data in the user terminal can be updated.
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