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Title:
STREAM DISTRIBUTOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3538121
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To economically realize a large-scale stream distribution service that can reduce occurrence of congestion in the case of receiving a huge amount of broadcast reception requests at once and prevent congestion of a planning type broadcast caused at the start of other broadcast contents from giving quality deterioration to a main signal being broadcast when programs are distributed at the same time.
SOLUTION: The stream distributor is configured such that the distribution processing of a main signal and the processing of a sub signal are separately and independently conducted. Broadcast reception requests arrived at once as a mass are once stored and the broadcast reception processing of the contents is executed in a stage that a certain degree of amounts of the requests is stored. In this case, as a condition of storing the requests at once, this distributor employs a condition where the requests are awaited for a prescribed time, a condition where the processing is awaited until a prescribed number of requests arrives, a condition where the processing is awaited only when the processing load exceeds a prescribed value or a condition that are combined with the conditions above.


Inventors:
Hanano, Shinya
Ushijima, Shigehiko
Tanigawa, Maki
Yanagimoto, Kiyoshi
Application Number:
JP2000171077A
Publication Date:
June 14, 2004
Filing Date:
June 07, 2000
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Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGR & TELEPH CORP <NTT>
International Classes:
H04H1/02; H04L12/18; H04N7/173; H04N21/226; H04N21/24; H04N21/6408; (IPC1-7): H04L12/18; H04H1/02; H04N7/173