Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ik-hwan Cho

Woo-sung Shim

Young-ho Moon

Kyung-sun Cho

Mi-Hwa Park

Sun-hee Youm

Ju-hee Seo

Hwa-jung Kim

Seung-ji Yang

Provided are a method and apparatus for reproducing at least one piece of content received via at least one interface. The method includes classifying the at least one piece of content respectively received via the at least one interface according to a reference attribute, allocating the classified at least one piece of content to a virtual channel, and selecting a channel from among set channels that include the virtual channel and an occupied basic channel.

Method and apparatus for reproducing content through integrated channel management

Provided are a method of selecting the most suitable content reproducing apparatus on the basis of minimum resource information required to reproduce content and capability information of the content reproducing apparatus, and a content reproducing apparatus selector using the method. The method includes: receiving a content file, which includes minimum resource (MR) metadata including the minimum resource information required to reproduce content, from a content providing server or a content providing medium; receiving device level (DL) metadata per device from a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses, wherein the DL metadata includes capability information of the content reproducing apparatus; determining whether at least one of the content reproducing apparatuses described by the DL metadata can reproduce the content described by the MR metadata; and selectively renewing the MR metadata on the basis of a result of the determining.

Method of selecting content reproducing apparatus and content reproducing apparatus selector

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Seoul, South Korea

Ik-hwan Cho