Patent ID: 10049191

Abstract:
It is provided a method for managing stream in home media network having home gateway and a plurality of devices comprising; building converged home media index at a home gateway by synchronizing local media index of each of the devices; receiving by a source device a request from a user to play a media stored on the source device at the first render device; assigning a multicast IP and port for streaming of the media by the source device or the home gateway; sending by the source device hash value of the media, the multicast IP and port, and the streaming ID to the first render device, in addition to source device IP and render device IP to the home gateway; checking the media file's metadata and corresponding management policy stored on the converged home media index; notifying the source device that the steam can be transmitted to the first render device when receiving authentication and authorization from the gateway; sending security keys to the source device and the first render device to encrypt and decrypt the stream; and transferring the media from the source device to the first render device.