Method and network equipment for local encoding of digital terrestrial television content into segments of adaptive content over http
AssigneeOrange
InventorsHervé Marchand, Olivier Gaste
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Abstract
A method for managing access by a managing entity to content available on at least a first server providing the content in the form of data segments over a data telecommunication network and a second server providing a streaming service separate from the data telecommunication network. The method includes, in the managing entity, the selection of a server out of the first server and the second server, and, when the second server is selected: a request for access to a content from the second server; the encoding of a stream of segments based on the content; the publication of information relating to the content suitable for making it possible to decode the stream of segments.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- managing access by network equipment to content available on at least a first server providing said content in the form of data segments over a data telecommunication network and a second server providing a streaming service separate from said data telecommunication network, said managing comprising:
- selecting a server out of said first server and said second server;
- and
- in response to said second server being selected:
- sending, by the network equipment, a request for access to the content to the second server;
- receiving, by the network equipment, a stream of segments based on said content from the second server;
- encoding, by the network equipment, the stream of segments based on said content;
- and
- publishing, by the network equipment, information relating to said content suitable for making it possible to decode said stream of segments.
Network equipment comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon which when executed by the at least one processor configure the network equipment to manage access by a client to content available on at least a first content server providing said content in the form of data segments over a data telecommunication network and a second server providing a streaming service separate from said data telecommunication network, said managing comprising:
- selecting a server out of said first server and said second server;
- and
- in response to said second server being selected:
- sending a request for access to the content to the second server;
- receiving a stream of segments based on said content from the second server;
- encoding the stream of segments based on said content;
- and
- publishing information relating to said content suitable for making it possible for said client to decode said stream of segments.
A non-transitory computer readable data medium on which a series of program code instructions is stored, which when executed by a processor of a network equipment configure the network equipment to execute a method of managing access to a content available on at least a first server providing said content in the form of data segments over a data telecommunication network and a second server providing a streaming service separate from said data telecommunication network, said method comprising:
- selecting a server out of said first server and said second server;
- and
- in response to said second server being selected:
- sending a request for access to the content to the second server;
- receiving a stream of segments based on said content from the second server;
- encoding the stream of segments based on said content;
- and
- publishing information relating to said content suitable for making it possible to decode said stream of segments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.