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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRycharde Jeffery Hawkes, Lawrence Wilcock, Colin Andrew Low
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A content-provider entity provides content to media channels established in respect of a network communication session. The content-provider entity has a transport subsystem for establishing media channel connections to a session transport mechanism in accordance with channel type and connection details received by the entity. The content-provider entity also has a media subsystem providing a respective media handler of appropriate type for each media channel connection established by the transport subsystem. Each media handler is responsible for delivering media content of its associated type from a media source to the corresponding channel connection. A delivery controller of the media subsystem controls the selection and delivery of media content through the media handlers in dependence on context data supplied to the content-provider entity.
A content-provider entity for providing content to media channels established in respect of a network communication session, the content-provider entity comprising:
In combination, a content-provider entity according to any one of the preceding claims and a service system for setting up a communication session with an associated transport mechanism allowing the exchange of data, via multiple data transfer channels for different media types, between endpoint entities joined to the session;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.