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AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun-hae Choi, Seung-gi Chang, Ju-han Lee, Ho-jeong You
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An apparatus and method of streaming content by adaptively selecting a peer-to-peer (P2P) method or a server-client method according to a network environment, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method are provided. The apparatus includes middleware which supports the P2P method, middleware which supports the server-client method, an adaptation manager which provides a list of content, determines one of at least one node and at least one server sharing content which is selected as a source device according to a content sharing method and their available bandwidths, and determines a content sharing method used by the source device as a streaming method, and an application unit which controls the selected content to be received from the source device by using middleware and a transfer layer corresponding to the determined streaming method, and the received content to be reproduced.
A streaming client apparatus which performs streaming of content selected from a list of content via a network interface, and reproduces the streamed content, the apparatus comprising:
A method of streaming content in a content streaming client apparatus, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a content streaming method in a content streaming client apparatus, the method comprising:
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