Patent ID: 7047306
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An Internet broadcasting method comprising: providing an Internet broadcasting server configured to broadcast unicast data and multicast data; providing a terminal having broadcasting receiving means to directly receive multicast data, and data treatment and display means connected to the broadcasting receiving means for receiving, processing, and displaying the multicast data from the broadcasting receiving means, and broadcasting repeating means to directly receive unicast data, transform the unicast data to multicast data and transmit the transformed multicast data to other terminals; receiving by the broadcasting receiving means multicast data broadcast by the Internet broadcasting server for a first time period; receiving, processing, and displaying, the multicast data from the broadcasting receiving means by the data treatment and display means; failing to receive multicast data by the broadcasting receiving means for a predetermined second time period after the first time period and then directly connecting the broadcasting repeating means of the terminal to the Internet broadcasting server and receiving unicast data from the Internet broadcasting server, transforming the received unicast data into multicast data, and transmitting the transformed multicast data to other terminals connected to the terminal.