UNIFIED CONTENT REPRESENTATION

摘要

Example apparatus and methods facilitate providing an incremental future-proof license to a master stream of content. The master stream (200) may be related to different instances of content (e.g., different versions) (220, 230) for which there is a unified content representation. A request for content available through the master stream (200) may be received from a licensee. The request may include an explicit indication of which stream of frames is to be accessed or may include implicit information from which a stream of frames may be selected. The selected stream may be changed midstream in response to changing conditions (e.g., bandwidth), events (e.g., gesture), devices (e.g., licensee accesses different device) or explicit requests. As the available streams of frames associated with the content changes, the changes may be mapped to the master stream (200) and made available to the licensee. The licensee may pay an incremental license fee for access to updated content.