IN-TRANSPORT MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIA DELIVERY

摘要

Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients.

主权项

1. An in-transport media (ITM) delivery system comprising:
an ITM distribution server disposed in a transport craft, the ITM distribution server comprising:
a channel distribution controller to distribute a plurality of media channel offerings to a plurality of ITM clients disposed in the transport craft;a request controller to monitor the ITM clients to determine which of the channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients; anda communications controller to communicate, to a remote media server via a communications network, feedback indicating which of the channel offerings are presently being consumed according to the monitoring, wherein the channel distribution controller further operates to receive the channel offerings, from the remote media server via the communications network, such that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients according to the feedback, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients according to the feedback.