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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2014
Saturn Licensing Llc, New York, NY (US);
Yasuaki Yamagishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahito Mori, Kanagawa, JP;
SATURN LICENSING LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a content supply apparatus, a content supply method, a program, a terminal apparatus, and a content supply system that allow to provide a receiver with pieces of general required network quality information for respective delivery paths for a case of supplying pieces of content of the same content through a plurality of different delivery paths. A content supply apparatus of the present disclosure delivers streams of content through a plurality of different networks, respectively, according to an adaptive streaming technique, and includes: a generating unit that generates metadata describing QoS parameters for the respective plurality of different networks through which the streams are delivered, and condition values of the QoS parameters; and a delivering unit that delivers the generated metadata to a receiver. The present disclosure can be applied to a system that streams content.