Mediation of content delivery by one or more services

摘要

A device for receiving streaming data is configured to be disposed between a broadcast or multicast middleware unit configured to receive streaming data via a second service, and the middleware unit and the client application. A proxy unit, receiving an indication of whether streaming data should be received via the first service or via the second service, the indication that the streaming data is the first When indicating that the middleware unit should be received via the service, invalidate the middleware unit, and receive the streaming data via the first service, and the indication that the streaming data is via the second service Should be received Activating the middleware unit to receive streaming data via the second service when the second service includes at least one of a broadcast service or a multicast service A proxy unit that is further configured to activate, and receive streaming data from the middleware unit.