METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION BETWEEN CLIENTS IN MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST SYSTEM

摘要

A method for providing information between clients in a multimedia broadcast system. The method includes receiving information about a specific client connected to a home server; receiving and analyzing a request from the client; if the received request is a request for streaming information, which includes content currently being streamed in the home server and information about a client receiving the content, providing the streaming information to a client that transmitted the request; upon receiving from the client a streaming providing request for providing its streaming content to another client, extracting information about target content and a target client from the received streaming providing request; and delivering the information about the target content to the target client.