Method and system for distributed streaming service of portable devices
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKwang Jeung Lee, Kyung Chun Moon
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Abstract
A method and a system for a distributed streaming service of portable devices forming a short-distance communication network. A buffer size and a priority of each of the portable devices are determined according to their remaining memory capacity, respectively. Each portable device calculates a buffering time using the buffer size and the priority, and receives sub-contents, corresponding to the buffering time, of a streaming content from a streaming server. A master device of the portable devices plays the sub-contents by acquiring them from the other portable devices.
Claims19
A method for a distributed streaming service of portable devices including a master device and a slave device, the method comprising:
- determining, based on a remaining memory capacity of each of the portable devices, a buffer size and a priority of each of the portable devices;
- calculating, based on the buffer size and the priority of each of the portable devices, a buffering time of each portable device;
- receiving sub-contents of streaming content at the portable devices, each of the portable devices separately receiving different sub-contents simultaneously;
- buffering the received sub-contents for the buffering time calculated for each portable device;
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- playing the sub-contents at the master device.
A system for a distributed streaming service, the system comprising:
- a plurality of portable devices for establishing a short-distance communication network, each of the portable devices calculating a buffering time for itself based on a buffer size and a priority, wherein the buffer size and the priority arc determined by, and depend on, a remaining memory capacity of each of the portable devices, each of the portable devices buffering different sub-contents of streaming content for the buffering time calculated for itself;
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- a streaming server for separately transmitting the sub-contents of the streaming content to each of the portable devices simultaneously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.