STREAMING TRANSFER SERVER, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRANSFERRING RECEIVING OF MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

It is presented a method for transferring receiving of streaming content from a first media receiver (12a) to a second media receiver (12b), the method comprising the steps, executed in a streaming transfer server (10), of : receiving a presence message (22) indicating the presence of the second media receiver (12b); receiving an in use message (24) indicating that the first media receiver (12a) is in active use by the user (2); transmitting a present media receiver message (26) to the first media receiver (12a), the present media receiver message (26) comprising an identifier of the second media receiver (12b); receiving a transfer message (32) indicating that the receiving of the streaming content should be transferred from the first media receiver (12a) to the second media receiver (12b); obtaining an identifier of the streaming content (34); and transmitting an initiate content message (33) to the second media receiver (12b), wherein the initiate content message (33) comprises the identifier of the streaming content.