CONTROL OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN BROADCAST/MULTICAST NETWORKS

• Main Authors: KAMPMANN, MARKUS, WILLIG, JOHANNES, CATREIN, DANIEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 11.01.2012
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The invention relates to techniques for controlling a delivery of streaming content in a point-to-multipoint ('PTM') enabled network (100). A method aspect of such a technique comprises the steps of sending one or more adjustment instructions for achieving a buffer overlap in content buffe...