Adaptive broadcasting of multimedia content
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1. A method comprising:
- managing a multimedia content suitable for being played back by a plurality of terminals of a network connected to a service gateway, said multimedia content being proposed at a plurality of initial levels and transcoded in at least one target level, said terminals being clustered in groups where each terminal of a respective group has the same target level, wherein managing comprises the following acts performed by a multimedia managing device;
receiving a request from a terminal of the plurality of terminals for playing back the multimedia content at a first initial level;
assigning the terminal to the target level if the terminal is not assigned; and
updating at least the target level for said group of terminals that is associated with the assigned target level as a function of the group of terminals and the first initial level of the request.
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Abstract
A method of managing a multimedia content suitable for being played back by a terminal of a network connected to a service gateway. The content is suitable for being transcoded at a plurality of initial levels and at least one target level. The method includes receiving a request for playing back the content at a first initial level and updating at least one target level while taking account of the initial level.
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1. A method comprising:
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managing a multimedia content suitable for being played back by a plurality of terminals of a network connected to a service gateway, said multimedia content being proposed at a plurality of initial levels and transcoded in at least one target level, said terminals being clustered in groups where each terminal of a respective group has the same target level, wherein managing comprises the following acts performed by a multimedia managing device; receiving a request from a terminal of the plurality of terminals for playing back the multimedia content at a first initial level; assigning the terminal to the target level if the terminal is not assigned; and updating at least the target level for said group of terminals that is associated with the assigned target level as a function of the group of terminals and the first initial level of the request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A device for managing a multimedia content suitable for being played back by a plurality of terminals of a network connected to a service gateway, said multimedia content being proposed at a plurality of initial levels and transcoded in at least one target level, said terminals being clustered in groups where each terminal of a respective group has the same target level, wherein said device comprises:
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a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor configure the device to perform acts comprising; receiving a request from a terminal of the plurality of terminals for playing back the multimedia content at a first initial level; assigning the terminal to the target level if the terminal is not assigned; and updating at least the target level for said group of terminals that is associated with the assigned target level as a function of the group of terminals and the first initial level of the request. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a computer program stored thereon and including code instructions for performing a method of managing a multimedia content by a multimedia managing device when the program is executed by a processor of the device, wherein the multimedia content is suitable for being played back by a plurality of terminals of a network connected to a service gateway, said multimedia content being proposed at a plurality of initial levels and transcoded in at least one target level, said terminals being clustered in groups where each terminal of a respective group has the same target level, and wherein the instructions comprise:
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instructions that configure the multimedia managing device to receive from a terminal of the plurality of terminals a request for playing back the multimedia content at a first initial level; instructions that configure the multimedia managing device to assign the terminal to the target level if the terminal is not assigned; and instructions that configure the multimedia managing device to update the target level for said group of terminals that is associated with the assigned target level as a function of the group of terminals and the first initial level of the request. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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