A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGER BASED SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS ON INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) AT CLIENT LEVEL

摘要

The present invention provides a system and a scalable method for switching automatically between multiple streams of multimedia data, preferably between live and on-demand streams and for automatically switching between a mix of live streams and on-demand/static streams at the client device. A client application polls the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to detect changes made by a service provider and in turn makes the switch between streams.