METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Title:

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/162506

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

A multimedia contents random access method for a wireless communication system is provided. The live content access method of a client in a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes receiving a request for playing a content, receiving content structure information on the content from a content transfer server, receiving content segments and random access informations of the content segments from a content provision server using the content structure information, and performing, when a random access request is received, random access to the content segments using the random access information. The content random access method of the present invention is capable of accessing the content in unit of content segment such that it is possible to access a past time point in the content even before all of the content segments are received completely.

Inventors:

KEUM JI EUN (KR)
RHYU SUNG RYEUL (KR)
HWANG SEO YOUNG (KR)
SONG JAEYEON (KR)

Application Number:

PCT/KR2011/004411

Publication Date:

May 03, 2012

Filing Date:

June 16, 2011

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Assignee:

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD (KR)
KEUM JI EUN (KR)
RHYU SUNG RYEUL (KR)
HWANG SEO YOUNG (KR)
SONG JAEYEON (KR)

International Classes:

H04W74/08

Foreign References:

KR20100028156A	2010-03-12
US20060059245A1	2006-03-16
KR20080018192A	2008-02-27

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