Network TV set up box, network television system and method for providing stream media

Abstract

The invention provides a network TV set system that comprises: TV set program menu server, network TV set top box, and m flow medium servers, thereinto said network TV set top box includes: resource orientation symbol selector which is used to receive said m resource orientation symbols from the TV set program menu server, selecting the resource orientation symbol of most high priority P1, and request flow medium from corresponding first flow medium; fault detector which is used to send request of selecting resource orientation symbol of secondary priority P2 under condition that it detects the first flow medium server is fault, the resource orientation symbol selector selects the secondary priority P2 based on request of fault detector, and requests flow medium for corresponding second flow medium. With the system, user can be ensured to look on TV set continuously, reliability of system can be guaranteed easily and effectively.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to the technical field of network communication, and particularly relates to an IPTV (IPTV) set-top box (STB), an IPTV system and a streaming media providing method thereof. Background technique [0002] In today's Internet and communication business development, there is a big problem that needs to break through the terminal bottleneck. In addition to terminals such as personal computers and personal digital assistants, televisions are the most direct and most potential household terminals that can be transformed into network terminals. According to incomplete statistics, the total number of TV sets in my country exceeds 330 million. If TV sets can be converted into network terminals, even if it only accounts for 20%, there is a potential of 60 million sets. Therefore, IPTV is a service with great development potential using TV sets as broadband network terminals. IPTV set-top box market forecast: During 2004-...

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Problems solved by technology

Among them, a streaming media server can provide media services for more than 300 users. Once the streaming media server fails, the media service will be interrupted, so that all users cannot continue to watch programs normally.

Since the set-top box of the prior art does not have the function of automatically detecting the failure of the streaming media server and switching the streaming media server, it is impossible to simply and effectively guarantee the reliability of the system

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