Browser Embedded Media Player for IPTV Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users encounter interoperability issues when remotely accessing media files due to media player dependencies, such as lacking specific applications or misconfigured applications, which prevent them from viewing or listening to streamed media content.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows an Internet browser to request and receive media streams from a Set-Top Box (STB), presenting the media stream using an embedded media player within the browser, thereby overcoming media player application dependencies and misconfigurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a media player application is used to remotely access media files, then media playback functionality is provided, but interoperability issues arise due to missing or misconfigured applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives media file requests from client devices, retrieves media files from storage, and delivers them to clients. This mediator architecture eliminates the need for client devices to have specific media player applications, as the server handles all media processing and delivery, thereby resolving interoperability issues between different devices and platforms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If specific media player applications are required for media playback, then playback functionality is achieved, but system complexity increases due to installation and configuration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the media player functionality from the client device and relocates it to a centralized server. Instead of requiring media player applications to be installed and configured on each client device, the server performs all media playback operations, file retrieval, and delivery. This extraction eliminates the complexity of application installation and configuration on client devices while maintaining full media playback capability.
3Speed
If media files are stored locally on client devices, then immediate access is possible, but storage requirements and device resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the media storage model from local device storage to centralized server storage accessible via network. Instead of storing media files on each client device's local storage, the system uses networked storage resources on the server, allowing multiple clients to access the same media files without duplicating storage. This dimensional shift from local to networked storage provides efficient resource utilization while maintaining fast access speeds through network connectivity.
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AI summary
A system for presenting media services is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a portal having a controller element to detect an installation of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media receiver in an IPTV media system and adapt at least a portion of the portal according to the installation. Other embodiments are disclosed.