Method and apparatus providing process independence within a heterogeneous information distribution system
AssigneeSedna Patent Services, LLC
InventorsYong Ho Son, Michael Robert Colligan
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for adapting the delivery of assets and/or content to set top terminals within a heterogeneous information distribution system based on graphics and/or processing capability of set top terminals receiving the assets and/or content.
Claims9
A method of adapting asset delivery within a heterogeneous information distribution system, comprising the steps of:
- determining, for each set top terminal (STT) requesting a session initiation, a capability level of said STT and a capability level of the distribution network;
- selecting, from a plurality of available assets, those assets appropriate to said capability level of said STT;
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- providing said selected assets in response to STT communications indicative of a need for said assets.
In an interactive information distribution system including information provider equipment coupled to subscriber equipment via a communications network, a method for adapting provided information to a set top terminal comprising the steps of:
- determining, during a session initiation, a capability level of said STT, said determination being made by comparing STT configuration information to a data base of STT capability information;
- providing, to said STT in response to an STT request for information, requested information adapted to said determined capability level of said STT;
- each of said set top terminals having a common video information processing architecture, one of a plurality of control architectures, and one of a plurality of graphics processing architectures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.