Sony Corporation

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Service Center (Europe) N.v.

Geert Uytterhoeven

Manabu Onishi

Takahiro Nishikawa

Tsuyoshi Oobayashi

Tom Frans Maurits Hostyn

Shunkichi Shimizu

Khac Tri Vu

Tomonobu Saito

Tri Vu Khac

Shunkichi c/oSony Corporation Shimizu

Tomonobu c/oSony Corporation Saito

Takahiro c/oSony Corporation Nishikawa

Manabu c/oSony Corporation Onishi

Tsuyoshi c/oSony Corporation Ohbayashi

A data transmission system may have a sending apparatus that sends streaming data, and a receiving apparatus that receives the streaming data and transmits a request of switch of the streaming data to the sending apparatus, in which the sending apparatus may switch the streaming data in response to the received request. The receiving apparatus may include a receiving section, a storage section that stores the streaming data temporarily and transfers it, an operation-detecting section that detects whether a user operates the request, and a control section that controls a transfer rate of the streaming data stored in the storage section to fast-forward the streaming data when the operation-detecting section detects that the user's operation. The sending apparatus may include an information-adding section that adds to the streaming data additional information on the user's operation when receiving a notice of user's operation, and a sending section that sends the additional-information-added streaming data.

Data transmission system, receiving apparatus, and receiving method as well as sending apparatus and sending method

A system and method of audio/video streaming in which a server transmits over a network an audio/video stream to a client device. The client device is able to send command data to the server causing the server to provide a change in content of the audio/video stream from a first content to a second content. Buffers in the server and client device can be flushed or skipped-over at the time of sending the command data so as to improve response time and marker data can be sent from the server to the client device to indicate the start of the second content.

System and method of audio/video streaming

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Arschott, Belgium

Geert Uytterhoeven