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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2004
Marzio Alessi, Turin, IT;
Eugenio Maria Maffione, Turin, IT;
Marzio Alessi, Turin, IT;
Eugenio Maria Maffione, Turin, IT;
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A method for controlling distribution of media contents over a network is provided, wherein the contents are distributed contents available at surrogate servers and remaining contents that are not available at the surrogate servers. The method includes identifying contents eligible for distribution from the remaining contents; defining a set of categories; identifying for each category at least a reference content; associating the identified contents with the predefined categories based on semantics affinity with the reference content, the semantics affinity being calculated as the distance of each of the identified contents to the at least a reference content; selecting at least one of the predefined categories; and making at least one of the identified contents associated with the selected predefined category available for distribution at the surrogate servers.