METHOD, SYSTEM AND NETWORK FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA DATA TO A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS

For transmitting multimedia data to a plurality of clients (104a, 104b) over a network (102), wherein the multimedia data is stored in a plurality of formats of different multimedia rates, on the basis of utility information for the multimedia data, the utility information describing a relationship...

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Hauptverfasser:	STEINBACH, ECKEHARD, STAEHLE, DIRK, SCHROEDER, DAMIEN, EL ESSAILI, ALI, KELLERER, WOLFGANG, SHEHADA, MOHAMMED
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Zusammenfassung:	For transmitting multimedia data to a plurality of clients (104a, 104b) over a network (102), wherein the multimedia data is stored in a plurality of formats of different multimedia rates, on the basis of utility information for the multimedia data, the utility information describing a relationship between multimedia quality and multimedia rate, and on the basis of a condition of the network (102), for each of the plurality of clients (104a, 104b) available multimedia rates for the multimedia data are determined. In response to a client request (114) for transmitting the multimedia data with a desired multimedia rate, in accordance with the available multimedia rates determined for the requesting client (104a, 104b), a format of the requested multimedia data is selected and the multimedia data is transmitted in the selected format to the requesting client (104a, 104b).