Flexible in-home caching for video streaming services

适用于视频流服务的灵活家庭缓存

• 批准号: 499384-2016
• 负责人: Lank, Edward
• 金额: $ 1.72万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=607392
• 关键词: Flexible; home; caching; video; streaming

NightShift optimizes customers' bandwidth usage when using streaming services. It does this by taking advantage of off-peak bandwidth availability to cache digital media content addressing both problems of limited bandwidth (which impacts real-time streaming) and bandwidth quotas (which can result in bandwidth throttling or overage charges). Caching is done via a locally installed network storage device that preserves digital rights management (DRM) features while still creating a content viewing experience indistinguishable from live streaming, i.e. as a NightShift customer, to view, for example, Netflix content, you open Netflix and requested content is accessed from the local cache transparently to the end user.

NightShift可优化客户在使用流媒体服务时的带宽使用。它通过利用非高峰带宽可用性来缓存数字媒体内容，解决有限带宽（影响实时流）和带宽配额（可能导致带宽限制或超额费用）的问题。缓存是通过本地安装的网络存储设备完成的，该设备保留了数字版权管理（DRM）功能，同时仍然创建与直播流媒体无法区分的内容观看体验，即作为NightShift客户，要查看例如Netflix内容，您打开Netflix，并且最终用户可以透明地从本地缓存访问所请求的内容。