METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING MEDIA OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A node and a method for use in an IPTV communications network. The node comprises a user analyzer function for analyzing information relating to a user' s IPTV channel switching behaviour, and for predicting the user' s IPTV channel switching behaviour. By predicting the user s IPTV channel switching behaviour the node can, for example, populate a database for profiling the user s behaviour, and pre-fetch fragments for an IPTV channel which a user may be about to switch to, thereby allowing the node to render the IPTV channel more quickly when the user does switch to that channel.