GB2483378B - A method for streaming video - Google Patents

A method for streaming video

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GB2483378B
GB2483378B GB1117384.6A GB201117384A GB2483378B GB 2483378 B GB2483378 B GB 2483378B GB 201117384 A GB201117384 A GB 201117384A GB 2483378 B GB2483378 B GB 2483378B
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Will Hawes
Christian Harris
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Gorillabox Ltd
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Gorillabox Ltd
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    • H04N21/2343—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements
    • H04N21/23439—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements for generating different versions
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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
    • H04N21/258—Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
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    • H04N21/61—Network physical structure; Signal processing
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    • H04N21/6125—Network physical structure; Signal processing specially adapted to the downstream path of the transmission network involving transmission via Internet
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    • 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
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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Computer Graphics (AREA)
  • Computer Security & Cryptography (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Information Transfer Between Computers (AREA)
  • Two-Way Televisions, Distribution Of Moving Picture Or The Like (AREA)

Abstract

Streaming video comprises displaying (110) a link to a video, corresponding to an Internet URL, in a web browser of a device and accessing (120) a web server according to the link URL. The server interrogates (130) the device to determine the device type, and re-directs the device to a streaming device, e.g. via the streaming deviceâ s URL, to stream (140) a suitable version of the video to the device. The interrogation may be via a User Agent Profile (UA Prof.) device type indicator. The re-direction may constitute looking up a set of video attributes required for the device type and determining a version of the video having those attributes, and may be performed by the server. The link to the video may be the only link (i.e. a generic link) to the video displayed, rather than a list of all available video formats. The streaming device may stream the video from a content database which stores multiple instances of the video in a variety of formats and a table recording correspondences between video formats and device types.
GB1117384.6A 2011-10-10 2011-10-10 A method for streaming video Expired - Fee Related GB2483378B (en)

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