Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090158328 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION CHANNEL SELECTION DEVICE - The present invention relates to an IPTV Channel selection device, for use in an IPTV system said IPTV system comprising a meta-information holding part that is adapted to store meta-information on each channel of a plurality of IPTV channels, wherein the IPTV Channel selection device comprises a selection engine that is adapted to select at least one IPTV channel from said plurality of IPTV channels based on meta-information on each channel of said plurality of IPTV channels in combination with at least one user-related selection criterion. | 06-18-2009 |
20100077430 | Device for ip tv channel selection - The present invention is related to a device ( | 03-25-2010 |
20120185594 | CONGESTION CONTROL IN CACHING ENABLED VIDEO NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method, related system, related congestion monitoring device and related media delivery personalization devices for controlling congestion in a media delivery network that includes a media delivery server and a plurality of client devices. The media delivery server is coupled over the media delivery network to each client device of the plurality of client devices. The media delivery server delivering media to a client device over a path between the media delivery server and the client device. The related method includes the steps of monitoring congestion in the media delivery network and subsequently adapting a level of personalization of the delivering of media to the client device based on the congestion monitored. | 07-19-2012 |
20130185759 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING VIDEO CHUNKS, SERVER ENTITY, CLIENT ENTITY AND INTERMEDIATE NETWORK ENTITY REALIZING SUCH A METHOD - Method to provide video chunks to a client entity (C) using a request-response protocol. Each video chunk is available at a server entity (S) as a plurality of encoded video chunks encoded according to respective quality levels. The method includes the steps of: —the server entity sending to the client entity information on the different quality levels, —the client entity making a selection of one quality level of the different quality levels based on criteria related to local transfer bandwidth related parameters, —the client entity requesting the server entity to transfer to it encoded chunks encoded in that one chunk quality level and —the server entity sending the encoded chunks encoded according to that one chunk quality level to said client entity, —the server entity sending to the client entity additional information related to a transfer time of the encoded chunks from the server entity to the client entity, and —the client entity in making the selection of the one quality level taking into account also the additional information. | 07-18-2013 |
20130282918 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ADAPTIVE STREAMING SERVICE - A method for providing a streaming service from a server to a client, comprises the steps of requesting respective consecutive segments (SIQ | 10-24-2013 |
20140032849 | CACHE MANAGER FOR SEGMENTED MULTIMEDIA AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR CACHE MANAGEMENT - The invention concerns a cache manager ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140089993 | METHOD FOR STREAMING VIDEO CONTENT, NODE IN A NETWORK FOR MONITORING VIDEO CONTENT STREAMING - The invention relates to a method of streaming video content from a server to a client over a channel via a network. Video content is offered as a set of consecutive fragments, each fragment of said set of consecutive fragments being offered in a plurality of quality levels corresponding to respective encoded data rates. The method comprises a session of transmitting one or more of requests for fragments and receiving via the network one or more replies to the requests containing fragments with target quality levels at said client. These fragments are displayed at said client. At a capture node requests and/or replies to the requests of the session are captured. The captured data is used to reconstruct at least part of the session as experienced (QoE) at the client. | 03-27-2014 |