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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Rajesh S. Agarwalla, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Bryan E. Aupperle, Apex, NC (US);
Thirumale Niranjan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Srikanth Ramamurthy, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marcia L. Stockton, Bakersfield, CA (US);
Rajesh S. Agarwalla, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Bryan E. Aupperle, Apex, NC (US);
Thirumale Niranjan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Srikanth Ramamurthy, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marcia L. Stockton, Bakersfield, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An intermediate content transcoder. An intermediate content transcoder can include a communicative receiver configured to receive master content while in transit from a content source to at least one content sink in a content distribution network, and a communicative transmitter configured to transmit transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks. A set of content transformations also can be provided. Furthermore, the intermediate content transcoder can include a set of conditions for selecting individual ones of the content transformations to be applied to master content received through the communicative receiver. Finally, the intermediate content transcoder can include a transcoder configured to apply the selected individual ones of the content transformations to the master content. The application of the content transformations can produce transcoded content. The communicative transmitter, in turn, can forward the produced transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks.