APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELAYING DATA OF MEDIA CONTENT PROVIDING INFORMATION ON SEGMENTS THROUGH SEGMENT LIST INFORMATION

摘要

A terminal according to the present invention includes a relay unit receiving media content to relay it to other running object. The relay unit requests list information of segments for media content designated by a random object, receives the list information from a remote area, requests segments of the media content based on information written on the received list information to receive/store the segments, and makes list information for all or part of the segments listed on the received list information to provide the list information to another object as a response of the received request when a request of the list information for the media content from another object. Also, when making the list information, remote area source information for a segment written in the received list information is changed into local source information including, for example, a path name of a file in a storage area designated to store data of the area.;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2014;[Reference numerals] (27a) Storage space in a memory (27); (n) A file of the n-th piece of media content