Patent ID: 8850479
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A distributing apparatus, comprising: a preview meta data manager that manages preview meta data for distribution to a plurality of receiving apparatuses, wherein the preview meta data includes reference destination information of an element constituting preview data of multimedia content, the preview data comprises a preview of the multimedia content, the preview of the multimedia content is generated from a plurality of multimedia data elements stored on a preview-constituting data server separate from the distributing apparatus, the plurality of multimedia data elements are configured to be displayed in a same time domain, the reference destination information comprises different reference destination information for each of the plurality of multimedia data elements, and the preview meta data including the reference destination information is broadcast to the plurality of receiving apparatuses for acquiring selected multimedia data elements of the plurality of multimedia data elements from the preview-constituting data server to generate the preview data; and a transmitter that broadcasts the preview meta data to the plurality of receiving apparatuses, wherein an alternative multimedia data element is acquired for one of the selected multimedia data elements when preview data distribution from the preview-constituting data server does not one of start and end within a predetermined period of time.