METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA

• US 20110119396A1
• Filed: 11/15/2010
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWON, O-hoon, HA, Ho-jin, IM, Sung-bin, ZHANG, Guanhua, KEUM, Ji-eun
• Application Number:
  US12/946,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20110119396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2402 Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available traffic monitoring in data switching networks H04L43/00; monitoring data switching networks utilization H04L43/0876
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving data. The method includes obtaining information about first media data, the first media data including at least one component; and obtaining the at least one component based on the information about the first media data, wherein the information about the first media data further includes information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

Claims

1. A method of receiving data, the method comprising:

obtaining information about first media data, the first media data comprising at least one component; and

obtaining the at least one component based on the information about the first media data,

wherein the information about the first media data further comprises information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the first media data further comprises component information about each of the at least one component,

wherein the component information comprises type information about the at least one component included in the first media data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the component information further comprises identification information of the at least one component.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the component information further comprises camera angle information about a video component included in the first media data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the component information further comprises at least one of channel information and language code information about an audio component included in the first media data.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the component information further comprises language information about a subtitle component included in the first media data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the first media data further comprises information indicating whether the first media data and the second media data comprise respective components generated by encoding the same content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the information about the first media data comprises obtaining the information about the first media data from a file comprising information about a plurality of components generated by encoding predetermined content to have different qualities.

9. A method of transmitting data, the method comprising:

generating information, by a server, about first media data comprising at least one component;

transmitting, by the server, the information about the first media data; and

transmitting, by the server, the at least one component based on a request corresponding to the transmitting of the information about the first media data,

wherein the information about the first media data comprises information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information about the first media data further comprises component information about each of the at least one component, and

wherein the component information comprises type information about the at least one component included in the first media data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the component information further comprises identification information of the at least one component.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the component information further comprises camera angle information about a video component included in the first media data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the component information further comprises at least one of channel information and language code information about an audio component included in the first media data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the component information further comprises language information about a subtitle component included in the first media data.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the information about the first media data further comprises information indicating whether the first media data and the second media data comprises respective components generated by encoding the same content.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating of the information about the first media data comprises generating the information about the first media data from a file comprising information about a plurality of components generated by encoding predetermined content to have different qualities.

17. An apparatus for receiving data, the apparatus comprising:

an information obtaining unit which obtains information about first media data, the first media data comprising at least one component constituting multimedia data; and

a component obtaining unit which obtains the at least one component based on the information about the first media data,

wherein the information about the first media data comprises information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

18. An apparatus for transmitting data, the apparatus comprising:

an information generator which generates information about first media data comprising at least one component;

an information transmitter which transmits the information about the first media data; and

a component transmitter which transmits the at least tone component based on a request corresponding to the transmitting of the information about the first media data,

wherein the information about the first media data comprises information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a method of receiving data, the method comprising:

obtaining information about first media data, the first media data comprising at least one component; and

obtaining the at least one component based on the information about the first media data,

wherein the information about the first media data further comprises information indicating whether the at least one component is provided together with a component obtained from second media data.

20. An apparatus for receiving data, the apparatus comprising:

an information receiver which receives information about a media type from a data transmitting apparatus; and

a component receiver which receives a component of the media data from the data transmitting apparatus in response to a request forwarded to the data transmitting apparatus based on the previously received information.