Patent ID: 8910226
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A transmitting apparatus for supplying content, comprising: transmitting circuitry that transmits the content to a first receiving apparatus over a network; manifest file receiving circuitry that receives a manifest file corresponding to the content indicating a quality of the content, the manifest file being received from the first receiving apparatus that has received the content; analyzing circuitry that analyzes the received manifest file; broadcasting circuitry that distributes the content by on-air broadcast, different from the network, based on a result of analysis of the received manifest file by the analyzing circuitry; distributing circuitry that distributes the received manifest file to a second receiving apparatus over the network when the distributing circuitry receives a request to transmit the received manifest file from the second receiving apparatus over the network, and distributes the received manifest file to the second receiving apparatus by said on-air broadcast when the distributing circuitry does not receive the request to transmit the received manifest file from the second receiving apparatus over the network, wherein the second receiving apparatus determines whether to request the content from the transmitting apparatus or directly from the first receiving apparatus based on the quality of the content indicated in the received manifest file.