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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2012
Broadpeak, Rennes, FR;
BROADPEAK, Rennes, FR;
Abstract
A gateway connects a first communication network comprising at least one terminal intended to consume multimedia contents and a second communication network via which the gateway is intended to receive the multimedia contents in a stream form. The gateway detects () a use of a unicast connection intended for transmitting a multimedia content from an original server to a terminal of said network via the gateway; seeks () a connection redirection rule according to information exchanged by the original server and the terminal; establishes () a multicast connection in order to receive the multimedia content; receives () the multimedia content in the form of a stream according to the multicast connection; and transmits () to the terminal the multimedia content in the form of a stream according to the unicast connection.