65 results about "Multimedia delivery" patented technology

Private Multimedia Network (PMN) complements, and is an improved alternative to digital videoconferencing and multimedia delivery systems. PMN's desktop and meeting room delivery system is designed to support the exponential growth of enterprise team-based initiatives. PMN provides “one-stop-shopping” for the full multimedia rubric. It delivers user-friendly control and cost / effective TV and broadcast quality videoconferencing and other multimedia services to organizations with “critical mass” campuses and building complexes. Though digital systems dominate the videoconferencing marketplace, PMN's hybrid digital / analog architecture has no digital peer in breadth or quality of service within or between campuses. The novel architecture leverages advances in analog video short-haul technology, digital long-haul technology, and telephony audio and control technology to deliver four-level multimedia services: 1) premise; 2) campus; 3) multi-site; and 4) ubiquitous (any site with ITU compatible multimedia equipment (e.g., videoconferencing) and communication links). On balance, the price / performance afforded by PMN's centralized Telco-based control and audio delivery combined with its decentralized broadcast quality video distribution raise videoconferencing and other multimedia services to a new level of ubiquity. Just as telephones and PC LANs, PMN delivers expensive Boardroom and mobile cart videoconferencing capabilities to every desktop via existing multimedia wall plates. The key phases for this invention are: Lip-synchronization across differing network communication links and protocols; Ubiquitous multimedia service; Cost / effective room and desktop deployment; Telco control and audio; Broadcast quality video; Isochronous Quality; Centralized control and distributed operation; and Interoperable architecture.

A method, performed in a network element, for communicating packet multimedia data between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the method comprising the machine-implemented steps of receiving an outbound multimedia data packet; determining if the outbound multimedia data packet originated from a first endpoint that is logically behind a security device; determining and storing information identifying a logical pinhole in the security device, wherein the logical pinhole is associated with expected inbound multimedia data packets directed to the first endpoint; performing an action that keeps the logical pinhole open during all of a communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint; and forwarding inbound multimedia data packets directed from the second endpoint to the first endpoint via the logical pinhole.

The present technique provides a novel method and apparatus for generating a multi-media patient summary which integrates patient information including a wide range of information having disparate formats and originating from isolated systems. The multi-media may be delivered to care providers and patients for use in medical diagnosis and care. The contents of the multi-media patient summary may be tailored to meet the needs of the specific care provider, and may include, for example, clinical data, patient demographics, and reference materials. The summary may be a digital file that encapsulates patient information having formats, such as text, images, sound files, video, waveforms, hypertext links, and so forth. The file may be encrypted and require a proprietary or non-proprietary reader to view. Additionally, the flow of information may be bi-directional between the multi-media patient summary and users of the summary.

A system and method for the distribution and display of multimedia content to at least one remote location is described. The system includes a first server for storing and sending multimedia content, a second server located in at least one location remote from the first server, where the second server is communicatively connected to the first server via a network. At least one display unit is communicatively connected to the second server for displaying the multimedia content, where the first server selectively sends the multimedia content to the second server for displaying on the at least one display unit at the at least one location remote from the first server, and where the multimedia content is individually targeted for each of the at least one location remote from the first server.

Systems and methods are disclosed which detect a change in the status of a multimedia asset in a multimedia delivery system, and take steps to make the multimedia asset available after the status change. The multimedia asset can then be locally recorded on the user's digital video recorder (DVR) before the status changes. Alternatively, the user can be directed to an equivalent asset, for example, video-on-demand (VOD). The user may also receive a notification, which can be displayed on a TV or computer monitor or send to a remote device, for example to a mobile phone as an email or a short message. The user may be able to purchase the asset and / or initiate recording the asset. The status can be, for example, an expiration date of an asset, or a change of the source or format of an asset.

The invention manages resources and resolve conflicts when locally recording multimedia assets from a variety of sources in multimedia delivery systems. Local and system resources such as storage, tuners, and bandwidth are considered when alternative sources for assets are available (e.g., VOD). Rather than record assets locally, if equivalent assets are available via alternative sources, the recordings are deferred and a pointer to the equivalent asset is stored in lieu of the asset itself. When a user selects a multimedia asset for playback, an “on demand” or alternative source session is started for the asset associated with the pointer. Before the expiration date of the alternative source equivalent of the multimedia asset, it may be downloaded and recorded locally. The system may automatically determine based on various factors, such as transmission bandwidth, latency, and DRM, whether to store assets or pointers.

The present invention sends multiple versions of a multimedia packet to the base station, and, based on the radio channel and traffic characteristics, an appropriate version of the multimedia packet is selected to send to the mobile station at a given time. In this way, source transmission is improved to instantaneous conditions. The steps of the present invention are performed in conjunction with RTP used for multimedia transmission over internet protocol (IP) networks. In a first embodiment, the multiple versions are sent to the base station in the same RTP packet, and the base station strips out the extraneous versions. In a second embodiment, the base station receives multiple RTP packets having identical information in the packet header in many fields, and selects an appropriate one among these for transmission to the mobile station, discarding the rest.

A disclosed computer program product includes computer executable instructions, stored on a computer readable medium, for allocating bandwidth among various network provided communication services. The executable instructions include instructions to process a subscriber request to specify a bandwidth allocation, determine a multimedia bandwidth allocation indicative of bandwidth allocated to multimedia content, and generate a multimedia content request. The multimedia content request is influenced by the multimedia bandwidth allocation. In some embodiments, for example, the multimedia content request includes multimedia bandwidth information determined at least in part by the multimedia bandwidth allocation. The multimedia bandwidth information may indicate the bandwidth available for multimedia content, which may be determined from the multimedia bandwidth allocation less any bandwidth allocated to or otherwise consumed by other multimedia layers. In these embodiments, a multimedia delivery server may determine how much bandwidth to allocate to the requested multimedia content from information contained in the request itself.

A multimedia transfer apparatus is described comprising: a plurality of media readers; one or more encoder modules, configured to encode data read by the media readers in a specified encoding format; and a data communication interface configured to copy the encoded data to a media storage and playback apparatus.Also described is a computer-implemented method for transferring multimedia content comprising: reading first multimedia data from a first CD / DVD; encoding the first multimedia data to produce first encoded data in parallel with reading multimedia data from a second CD / DVD; encoding the second multimedia data to produce second encoded data; and transmitting the first and second encoded data to a multimedia storage and playback apparatus.

An apparatus is provided which supplies cached data in a house which does not require a large-space storage device, is a broadcast receiving apparatus that is connected to a network and that receives multimedia data including at least one of video and audio, from a device installed in a broadcast station. The apparatus includes a data receiving unit that receives the multimedia data from the device installed in the broadcast station, a selecting unit that selects one of the video storing apparatuses each of which stores multimedia data, an information communicating unit that transmits a request for storing multimedia data to the video storing apparatus selected by the selecting unit, and a data output unit that outputs the multimedia data received by the data receiving unit to the video storing apparatus selected by the selecting unit via the network.

A multimedia delivery engine and associated database for accessing and displaying varied multimedia content, whether stored on local storage devices or stored remotely on an Internet server, as one seamless multimedia application.

The invention discloses a method and device for controlling power consumption of a mobile terminal, aiming to control the power consumption of a mobile terminal in a wireless multimedia transmission technology and reduce the power consumption of the mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of determining the type of an application program for running data to be transmitted by a mobile terminal, and selecting a data sampling rate corresponding to the determined type from the corresponding relationship between the preset application program type and the data sampling rate; and sampling the data to be transmitted according to the selected data sampling rate, and sending the data obtained by sampling to a receiving device.

A multimedia delivery network, comprising network resource allocation means for allocating bandwidth to a network session between a UE (user equipment) device on the network and a delivery server, wherein the allocation means is adapted to reserve a nominal bandwidth for the network session when the session is opened, which permits delivery of data from the delivery server to the UE at a nominal service rate, and wherein the delivery server is adapted to increase the bandwidth of the session, to a higher bandwidth once the session has been opened, so as to permit delivery of data from the delivery server to the UE at a burst delivery rate higher than the nominal rate.

The invention provides a technology which can appropriately resume reproduction of paused content from a terminal in another terminal in a multimedia delivery system made up of a multimedia content server and plural terminals connected to a network. A data output device outputs multimedia data that includes at least one of video and audio, the data output device includes a control unit operable to generate resume position information and to cause said storage unit to store the generated resume position information when a pause request, which is a request to pause output by a first or a second output unit, is received by a receiving unit which receives a signal from an external device, and to read out the resume position information from the storage unit, to cause the readout unit to read out the multimedia data, starting from a resume position shown by the resume position information, from the accumulation unit and to cause the first or the second output unit to output the read-put multimedia data to the output destination.

A multimedia delivery system includes a target data provider device for transmitting a target multimedia data; an auxiliary data provider device for transmitting an auxiliary multimedia data related to the target multimedia data, and for generating a related data distribution information; a first multimedia playback device for receiving the target multimedia data and the data distribution information, generating a statistical graph according to the data distribution information, playing the target multimedia data, and synchronously displaying at least a portion of the statistical graph; and a second multimedia playback device for receiving the auxiliary multimedia data and synchronously displaying related auxiliary multimedia data while the first multimedia playback device plays the target multimedia data. The statistical graph can be used as preference data for user to determine whether to switch displaying time of target multimedia data.

A network device, capable of understanding communications between an end user and the core network on a RAN network is disclosed. In some embodiments, the device is able to decode the control plane and the user plane. As such, it is able to determine when the end user has requested multimedia content. Once this is known, the device can optimize the delivery of that content in several ways. In one embodiment, the device requests the content from the content server (located in the core network) and transmits this content in a just-in-time manner to the end user. In another embodiment, the device automatically changes the encoding and resolution of the content, based on overall monitored network traffic. In another embodiment, the device automatically selects or modifies the format and resolution options based on overall bandwidth limitations, independent of the end user.

A method for managing the delivery of multimedia contents to users' communications terminals over a communications network includes transcoding the multimedia contents to be delivered. The transcoding includes: determining a transcoding method based on historical information of previous transcoding operations; performing a transcoding of the multimedia contents to be delivered according to the determined transcoding method to obtain transcoded multimedia contents to be delivered, and updating the historical information according to the performed transcoding of the multimedia contents to be delivered.

The present invention relates to a media transmission method of network teaching. Via the automatic background download module of a client end, when the client end requests a server end to download the first curriculum, the download of the first curriculum is configured as priority; meanwhile, the next curriculum is downloaded and stored in the storage device of the client end, and the storage location and the file name are reported to the serve end; when the client end requests a server end to download the non-first curriculum, the server end notifies the client end to invoke the corresponding curriculum stored in the serve end according to the storage location and the file name of the curriculum; via the automatic background download module of the client end, the next curriculum is downloaded and stored in the storage device of the client end, and the storage location and the file name are reported to the server end. In the media transmission method, the media player of the client end only plays the content prestored in the local host except a first curriculum, thus ensuring that every user of a teaching website can study stably via the Internet.

A computer program product includes computer executable instructions, stored on a computer readable medium, for allocating bandwidth among various network provided communication services. The executable instructions include instructions to process a subscriber request to specify a bandwidth allocation, determine a multimedia bandwidth allocation indicative of bandwidth allocated to multimedia content, and generate a multimedia content request. The multimedia content request is influenced by the multimedia bandwidth allocation. In some embodiments, for example, the multimedia content request includes multimedia bandwidth information determined at least in part by the multimedia bandwidth allocation. The multimedia bandwidth information may indicate the bandwidth available for multimedia content, which may be determined from the multimedia bandwidth allocation less any bandwidth allocated to or otherwise consumed by other multimedia layers. In these embodiments, a multimedia delivery server may determine how much bandwidth to allocate to the requested multimedia content from information contained in the request itself.

A method (300) for selectively conveying multimedia information (110) on a communication device (100). The method may include conveying the multimedia information on the communication device and, responsive to the communication device detecting a second device (120) that is conveying the same multimedia information (110′), automatically changing at least one multimedia conveyance parameter on the communication device.

The embodiment of the invention provides a multimedia file delivery method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device, and the method comprises the steps: monitoring whether a data packet transmitted by a communication module is received or not when multimedia playing equipment is in a power-off state, and enabling the communication module to comprise a wired communication module and / ora wireless communication module; when a data packet sent by the communication module is received, analyzing whether the data packet contains a multimedia delivery protocol or not; and when the data packet contains the multimedia delivery protocol, starting the multimedia delivery equipment to deliver the multimedia file in the data packet. The problems that in the prior art, the screen projectionoperation process is tedious, and universality and convenience are poor are solved.

The present invention relates to resilient service quality in a managed multimedia delivery network. A managed multimedia delivery network for providing a multimedia service with resilient service quality is disclosed. The network comprising a plurality of caching nodes for caching multimedia data segments; an edge caching node for colleting requested multimedia data segments from the caching nodes and for serving a user equipment with the collected multimedia data; and a service gateway for providing cache information to the edge caching node indicating how to obtain the requested multimedia data segments from the caching nodes. The edge caching node comprises a service quality monitoring unit for monitoring the collection of the data segments from the caching nodes and for requesting cache information from the service gateway when the collection of data segments impacts the service quality.

An electronic device is configured to facilitate the transfer of customized multimedia content. A controller (26) encapsulates multimedia payload using data stored in memory (28) and transfers the encapsulated multimedia content to a remote device over a communications interface. The data may include one or more user-selected start positions for the multimedia content, each being associated with a user-specified predetermined event. The device may also receive encapsulated multimedia content, and use the encapsulated information to update local memory (28). This allows the receiving electronic device to use the multimedia content as specified by the sending user without requiring the user to redefine the user-selected start positions and their associated predetermined events.

A method and apparatus for displaying received data, analyze the quality of the displayed data formulating a media-parameter suggestion for the encoder to alter the characteristics of data to be sent to the receiver, and sending from the receiver, the formulated suggestion.

A multimedia delivery platform includes a platform manager configured to monitor status of platform resources including content acquisition resources and a managed element, visible to the platform manager, including an externally accessible contact closure. A state of the contact closure is specified by user input provided by a platform manager user. The platform includes a shaking device configured to shake a signal acquisition device such as a dish antenna. A power relay in the platform includes a control terminal coupled to the contact closure of the managed element and output terminals configured to deliver power to the shaking machine upon activation of the power relay.

A method and system are disclosed which provide additional revenue stream to a client while providing training multimedia to a plurality of end users associated with the client. The method comprises comparing a client profile to a plurality of advertisements, selecting an advertisement from the plurality of advertisements based on the client profile, combining the selected advertisement with the training multimedia to create a combined multimedia, and delivering the combined multimedia to a selected one of the plurality of end users.