NODE DEVICE FOR RELAYING STREAMING CONTENT AND METHOD USING THE SAME
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1. A streaming content relaying method of a node device for relaying content of streaming services provided to a user terminal through a streaming server, comprising:
- s inspecting content characteristics and a network state from content provided from the streaming server, selecting one of a unicast transmission scheme and a multicast transmission scheme in accordance with the inspection result and providing the content streaming services to the user terminal using the selected transmission scheme.
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Abstract
A streaming content relaying apparatus and a method using the same are provided. The streaming content relaying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention inspects content characteristics and a network state from content provided from a streaming server, selects one of a unicast transmission scheme and a multicast transmission scheme in accordance with the inspection result, and provides the content streaming services to the user terminal using the selected transmission scheme.
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1. A streaming content relaying method of a node device for relaying content of streaming services provided to a user terminal through a streaming server, comprising:
s inspecting content characteristics and a network state from content provided from the streaming server, selecting one of a unicast transmission scheme and a multicast transmission scheme in accordance with the inspection result and providing the content streaming services to the user terminal using the selected transmission scheme. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A node device, comprising:
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a server connection unit that selects a streaming server based on load balancing when receiving a content streaming request signal from a user terminal, transmits the content streaming request signal to the selected streaming server, and relays streaming content between the user terminal and the streaming server; a content caching and unicast transmission unit that inspects whether there is redundant transmission of content to the user terminal, performs content caching and copying when there is redundant transmission, and unicast-transmits the content of the redundant transmission to the user terminal; and a multicast conversion unit that inspects whether multicast conversion of the cached and copied content is possible, and multicast-transmits the content to the user terminal when the multicast conversion is possible. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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