US 12,244,876 B2
Method providing to a user terminal a target multimedia content available at a master server
Gheorghe Pop, Bucarest (RO); Cosmin Marian Matache, Bucarest (RO); and Marius-Sorin Munteanu, Bucarest (RO)
Assigned to Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Appl. No. 17/920,714
Filed by Orange, Issy-Les-Moulineaux (FR)
PCT Filed Apr. 20, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/060187
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/214031, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20305389 (EP), filed on Apr. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171441 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2225 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/242 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/437 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2225 (2013.01) [H04N 21/23113 (2013.01); H04N 21/242 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/437 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing to a user terminal a target multimedia content belonging to a first set of multimedia contents available at a master server, the master server being a content server of a Content Delivery Network, wherein the method comprises, performed by a processing unit of a slave server connected to both the user terminal and the master server through a network:
synchronizing the slave server with the master server so that each multimedia content of the first set of multimedia contents available at the master server is also available at the slave server; and
providing the target multimedia content to the user terminal from the slave server,
wherein the first set of multimedia contents are available at the master server under at least a higher quality version and a lower quality version, and the first set of multimedia contents are available at the slave server only under the lower quality version,
and wherein the user terminal is implementing a dedicated client application for redirecting a user to the slave server and automatically requesting the lower quality version to the slave server, in case the user terminal is a mobile terminal.