GATEWAY, AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEANS CORRESPONDING THERETO

摘要

A gateway links a first communication network comprising at least one terminal intended to consume multimedia contents and a second communication network via which the gateway is intended to receive the multimedia contents in stream form. The gateway: detects (400) an implementation of point-to-point connection intended for a transmission of a multimedia content from an original server to a terminal via the gateway; searches (403) for a connection redirection rule as a function of information exchanged by the original server and the terminal; establishes (406) a point-multipoint connection so as to receive the multimedia content; receives (407) the multimedia content in the form of a stream according to the point-multipoint connection; and transmits (409) the multimedia content to the terminal in the form of a stream according to the point-to-point connection.