US 2017/0289272 A1Published application

Content Streaming Apparatus for Transferring a Streaming Session to Another Apparatus

AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC

InventorsDmitry Barablin, Scott Stillwell

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Abstract

A content streaming apparatus that includes a gateway streaming manager which determines whether a client device has roamed out of a wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus into a wireless zone of another content streaming apparatus, and when the client device has roamed, sends a tuner reservation instruction to the other content streaming apparatus to instruct the other content streaming apparatus to reserve a tuner in advance of a transfer of the streaming session. The gateway streaming manager receives a tuner reservation confirmation from the other content streaming apparatus, and sends an alternate streaming notification to the client device. The gateway streaming manager receives an alternate streaming acceptance from the client device, and ends the streaming session between the content streaming apparatus and the client device when the alternate streaming acceptance is received.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A content streaming apparatus comprising:

an input for receiving an input signal;
a wireless controller configured to communicate via wireless with a client device, and receive from the client device a streaming session request for streaming of requested content;
a plurality of tuners, each of which is configured to selectively tune to a portion of the input signal;
a tuner controller configured to select an unused one of the tuners, and tune the selected tuner to receive the requested content from the input signal;
a controller configured to establish a streaming session with the client device via the wireless controller, and send the requested content to the client device in the streaming session;
network connection circuitry;
a gateway streaming manager configured to:
determine whether the client device has left a wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus and entered into a wireless zone of another content streaming apparatus,
when the client device has left the wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus, send a tuner reservation instruction via the network connection circuitry to the other content streaming apparatus to instruct the other content streaming apparatus to reserve a tuner of the other content streaming apparatus, and receive a tuner reservation confirmation from the other content streaming apparatus;
send an alternate streaming notification to the client device when the tuner reservation confirmation is received,
receive an alternate streaming acceptance from the client device, and
end the streaming session between the content streaming apparatus and the client device when the alternate streaming acceptance is received.

9 more elements

A content streaming method for use with a content streaming apparatus, said method comprising:

receiving an input signal;
communicating via a wireless controller with a client device, and receiving from the client device a streaming session request for streaming of requested content;
controlling, with a tuner controller, a plurality of tuners so as to select an unused one of the tuners and tune the selected tuner to receive the requested content from the input signal;
establishing, with a controller, a streaming session with the client device via the wireless controller, and sending the requested content to the client device in the streaming session;
determining, with a gateway streaming manager, whether the client device has left a wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus and entered into a wireless zone of another content streaming apparatus,
when the client device has left the wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus, sending a tuner reservation instruction via network connection circuitry to the other content streaming apparatus to instruct the other content streaming apparatus to reserve a tuner of the other content streaming apparatus, and receiving a tuner reservation confirmation from the other content streaming apparatus;
sending an alternate streaming notification to the client device when the tuner reservation confirmation is received,
receiving an alternate streaming acceptance from the client device, and
ending the streaming session between the content streaming apparatus and the client device when the alternate streaming acceptance is received.

6 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to implement a content streaming method for use with a content streaming apparatus, said method comprising:

receiving an input signal;
communicating via a wireless controller with a client device, and receiving from the client device a streaming session request for streaming of requested content;
controlling, with a tuner controller, a plurality of tuners so as to select an unused one of the tuners and tune the selected tuner to receive the requested content from the input signal;
establishing, with a controller, a streaming session with the client device via the wireless controller, and sending the requested content to the client device in the streaming session;
determining, with a gateway streaming manager, whether the client device has left a wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus and entered into a wireless zone of another content streaming apparatus,
when the client device has left the wireless zone of the content streaming apparatus, sending a tuner reservation instruction via network connection circuitry to the other content streaming apparatus to instruct the other content streaming apparatus to reserve a tuner of the other content streaming apparatus, and receiving a tuner reservation confirmation from the other content streaming apparatus;
sending an alternate streaming notification to the client device when the tuner reservation confirmation is received,
receiving an alternate streaming acceptance from the client device, and
ending the streaming session between the content streaming apparatus and the client device when the alternate streaming acceptance is received.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/628,000Filed 20 Jun 2017
Priority: 13 May 2015
Published: 5 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04L 67/148
Session management: migration or transfer of sessions
H04L 65/1026
Media gateways: at the edge
H04L 65/61
Network streaming of media packets: for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
H04L
Digital communication

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Application14/710,977Continuation · filed 13 May 2015
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