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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Jae-Ho Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sun-Mi Kim, Seoul, KR;
Won Woo Ro, Seoul, KR;
Keunsoo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Seung Hun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jin-Won Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kijoon Chang, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An embodiment provides a distributed transcoding method using a plurality of servers. The method includes receiving a request for a first video file from a first terminal. The method also includes segmenting the video file based on a play time of at least portion of the video file and a performance rate of a plurality of second servers. The method also includes transmitting the segmented video file to the plurality of second servers, which includes transmitting the segmented video file of a greater size to the second server having a higher performance among the plurality of second servers and transmitting the segmented video file having a smaller size to the server having a lower performance among the plurality of second servers. The method also includes receiving a transcoded video file from the plurality of second servers. The method also includes transmitting the transcoded video files to the first terminal.