Patent ID: 9338485
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for distributing a multimedia content to at least two rendering devices by a distribution device, wherein said multimedia content comprises at least two elementary contents, the distribution device connects to the at least two rendering devices by using at least two network connections, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, by the distribution device, first information including information indicating for each of said at least two elementary contents, a destination rendering device and a starting time; wherein the first information of said multimedia content further comprises information indicating operation instruction and selectable operation choices for each of said at least two elementary contents; for each of said rendering devices associated with said multimedia content, generating and sending, by the distribution device over the network connection for the rendering device, corresponding information indicating the starting time for the at least one elementary content destined to the rendering device; receiving, by the distribution device, said multimedia content; for each of said rendering devices associated with said multimedia content, deriving and sending, by the distribution device over the network connection for the rendering device, at least one elementary content from said at least two elementary contents of said multimedia content based on information indicating destination rendering device for each of said at least two elementary contents, wherein responsive to an instruction for changing distribution of said multimedia content, the method further comprises: receiving, by the distribution device, an instruction from the rendering device that requests to change an operation on the elementary content or destination rendering device for one or more elementary contents among said at least two elementary contents; updating, by the distribution device, the first information based on the received instruction; and for each of said rendering device associated with said multimedia content, sending, by the distribution device, corresponding information indicating the starting time for at least one elementary unit of content destined to the rendering device based on the updated first information.