Requesting and receiving a media stream within a networked system

• Main Authors: HENRIKSSON, HENRIK, JANSSON, ERIK, OLSSON, STAFFAN, HARTZELL, TED, OLSSON, FREDRIK, MYRNAS, RALPH, RANBRO, MIKAEL, AHLFORS, ULF
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 16.06.2017
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A method for requesting and receiving a media stream within a networked system is provided. The networked system comprising a client, a media service register and a media service manager, all arranged to communicate within a data network comprising a plurality of networked computing devices. The method comprising: sending, from the client, a media request for the media stream, to the media service register, the media service register comprising a register of identifiers of active media stream generating services generating media streams within the data network and an address for accessing each corresponding media stream generating service; checking, at the media service register, if the media request corresponds to an active media stream generating service generating the requested media stream; when the media request does not correspond to an active media stream generating service, sending an activation request to the media service manager for a media stream generating service generating the requested media s