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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
May. 14, 2009
Eric Gautier, Rennes, FR;
François-louis Tariolle, Liffre, FR;
Jean-baptiste Henry, Melesse, FR;
Thompson Licensing, , FR;
Abstract
The present invention concerns a content server device and a content receiver device, and a method at said devices for sending content in a robust mode. In particular the invention concerns a method at a peer to peer client to receive content from a server, the method comprising the steps of receiving content from a server in a multicast mode, indicating to the server the content that has been correctly received, receiving from the server in a multicast mode a content availability map indicating the content available at each peer and requesting the missing content from the peer indicated in the content availability map.