ARCHITECTURE FOR ACCESSING A DATA STREAM BY MEANS OF A USER TERMINAL
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1. A user terminal comprising:
- storage means and calculation means;
a man-machine interface having display means and input means;
means for connection to a TCP/IP network, for accessing audio files available from audio streaming server, each audio file being located by an URL;
means for decoding the data stream transmitted by said server; and
means for reproducing sound from said decoded data stream,characterized in that said storage means comprise a cache memory to store the terminal use history, said cache memory being a volatile memory and being of reduced size,and in that said terminal further comprises means for communicating with a services platform, said communication means being capable of emitting HTTP GET requests toward the platform and of receiving requests in the XML-Phoenix format from the platform.
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Abstract
XML communication protocol between a user terminal, such as a radio alarm clock, and a services platform via the Internet network for accessing an audio file available from a data streaming server.
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1. A user terminal comprising:
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storage means and calculation means; a man-machine interface having display means and input means; means for connection to a TCP/IP network, for accessing audio files available from audio streaming server, each audio file being located by an URL; means for decoding the data stream transmitted by said server; and means for reproducing sound from said decoded data stream, characterized in that said storage means comprise a cache memory to store the terminal use history, said cache memory being a volatile memory and being of reduced size, and in that said terminal further comprises means for communicating with a services platform, said communication means being capable of emitting HTTP GET requests toward the platform and of receiving requests in the XML-Phoenix format from the platform. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 11)
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5. A communication method using the TCP/IP protocol between a user terminal and a services platform, said user terminal being capable of accessing an audio file available from an audio streaming server, said audio file being located by an URL,
characterized in that said method consists in: -
authenticating the user terminal with the services platform; updating the cache memory of the user terminal based on the information saved on said platform; the terminal user emitting a request in the HTTP GET format toward the platform, said request comprising, among other things, the alias of an audio file; the platform emitting a response in the XML-Phoenix format toward the user terminal, said response containing, among other things, the URL corresponding to said audio file, said terminal then connecting to the corresponding streaming server to access the audio file associated with said URL. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14)
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