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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2006
Jun-hae Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seung-gi Chang, Seoul, KR;
Ju-han Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Ho-jeong You, Suwon-si, KR;
Jun-hae Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seung-gi Chang, Seoul, KR;
Ju-han Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Ho-jeong You, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method of streaming content by adaptively selecting a peer-to-peer (P2P) method or a server-client method according to a network environment, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method are provided. The apparatus includes middleware which supports the P2P method, middleware which supports the server-client method, an adaptation manager which provides a list of content, determines one of at least one node and at least one server sharing content which is selected as a source device according to a content sharing method and their available bandwidths, and determines a content sharing method used by the source device as a streaming method, and an application unit which controls the selected content to be received from the source device by using middleware and a transfer layer corresponding to the determined streaming method, and the received content to be reproduced.