Patent ID: 8793349
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying a presence of a content delivery source in a network environment that includes a plurality of content sources; obtaining contact information to communicate with the content delivery source; utilizing, at a first content management system, the contact information to initiate communications with the content delivery source to discover configuration information, the discovered configuration information indicating: i) an address of the content delivery source, ii) a type of content outputted by the address, and iii) a format of the content outputted by the address; communicating the discovered configuration information to a second content management system; and automatically managing configuration information for each content source in the plurality of content sources, the configuration information allowing for the retrieval of content according to a selected one of multiple different possible content formats, wherein contact information for each source in the plurality of content sources is used to query each source and obtain the configuration information for each source, and wherein the configuration information includes linear multicast information.