Thomson Licensing

François Gerard

Jean-Baptiste Henry

Denis Mischler

Eric Gautier

Willem Lubbers

The invention concerns a method of transmission of a digital content stream to receivers and a corresponding method of reception. In order to synchronize digital content rendering over these receivers, while supporting trick mode commands, the method of transmission comprises a step of sending of a common time reference to the receivers, a step of reception of a trick mode command message, the received trick mode command message comprising information allowing identification of a point in the digital content stream, a step of sending of notification messages to all of the at least two receivers notifying them of the received trick mode command message and a step of sending of at least part of the digital content stream to all receivers in accordance with the received trick mode command message, the digital content stream comprising information allowing to identify a point in the digital content stream.

Method of transmission of a digital content stream and corresponding method of reception

The present invention concerns a method for downloading content using a combination of push and pull modes. In a communication system comprising a first terminal, at least a second terminal, and a content server, the invention concerns a method for downloading content comprising, at the level of the first terminal, the steps of downloading content either in a pull mode from the content server or at least the second terminal or in a push mode from the content server; and seamlessly switching between the modes for continuing downloading of the content.

System and method for combining pull and push modes

The invention relates to a method of management of trick mode commands destined to control a digital content streaming server. In order to manage the transmission of trick mode commands from multiple trick mode command issuers, the method comprises:

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François Gerard