BYPASSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT

• US 20150215658A1
• Filed: 09/10/2014
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: RYU, WON, LEE, NAM KYUNG, JUNG, IL GU
• Application Number:
  US14/482,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20150215658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2225 Local VOD servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612

Abstract

A bypassing apparatus for providing content, the apparatus including: a processor configured to determine whether content for which a service request has been received is acceptable in a service platform terminal based on service platform profile information about the content for which a service request has been received; a content collector configured to collect, from a content provider, the content for which a service request has been received; and a content converter configured to convert the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal, in which the bypassing apparatus for providing content may further includes a profile manager configured to store the service platform profile information and in response to a request of the processor, to transmit, to the processor, service platform profile information about the content for which a service request has been received.

Claims

1. A bypassing apparatus for providing content, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to determine whether content for which a service request has been received is acceptable in a service platform terminal based on service platform profile information about the content for which a service request has been received;

a content collector configured to collect, from a content provider, the content for which a service request has been received; and

a content converter configured to convert the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a profile manager configured to store the service platform profile information and in response to a request of the processor, to transmit, to the processor, service platform profile information about the content for which a service request has been received.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether the content is acceptable in the service platform terminal based on the service platform profile information including container information and codec information of the content provided by the content provider.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein in response to a determination that the content is acceptable in the service platform terminal, the processor allocates sessions to create a service channel to the service platform terminal.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor allocates the sessions using a real time streaming protocol (RTSP) connection to create the service channel.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content converter converts the container of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal by transformatting.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content converter converts the codec of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal by transcoding.

8. A bypassing method for providing content, the method comprising:

analyzing service platform profile information about content for which a service request has been received;

determining whether the content for which a service request has been received is acceptable in a service platform terminal based on the analyzed service platform profile information;

collecting, from a content provider, the content for which a service request has been received; and

converting the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the determining whether the content is acceptable in a service platform terminal based on the analyzed service platform profile information comprises determining whether the content is acceptable in the service platform terminal based on the service platform profile information including container information and codec information of content.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising allocating sessions to create a service channel to the service platform terminal in response to a determination that the content is acceptable in the service platform terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the allocating of sessions to create a service channel comprises allocating the sessions using the RTSP connection to create the service channel.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the converting of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal comprises converting the container of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal by transformatting.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the converting of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal comprises converting the codec of the collected content into a form that is acceptable in the service platform terminal by transcoding.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing the converted content to a user.