Alcatel Lucent

Nokia Technologies Oy

Rafaël Huysegems

Koen De Schepper

Sigurd Van Broeck

Bart De Vleeschauwer

Nico Victor Verzijp

Tingyao Wu

Nico Verzijp

Tom Van Cutsem

The present invention is related to a device () for assisted channel selection in an IPTV system comprising a selection engine () arranged for outputting a channel change command corresponding to a selected channel. The device comprises means for receiving a plurality of channel change requests from a group of users of the IPTV system. The selection engine () is arranged for determining the selected channel from a plurality of IPTV channels based on at least one selection criterion derived from at least a part of the plurality of channel change requests of the group of users.

Device for IP TV channel selection

The invention concerns a cache manager () for managing the intermediate caching of segmented multimedia items. Multiple versions are available of each multimedia item, each version representing the multimedia item with a different quality. The cache manager () comprises control means () to control the pre-fetching and eviction of segments. The control means () are at least responsive to temporal and quality related inter-segment relationships ().

Cache manager for segmented multimedia and corresponding method for cache management

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Walem, Belgium

Rafaël Huysegems