Clicker - An IPTV Remote Control in Your Cell Phone

This paper investigates a novel concept of providing seamless control and portability of an IPTV viewing session. A solution employing a middleware system, a secure hardware token and a cell phone are used to demonstrate how an IPTV session can be securely controlled remotely and moved between multiple viewing stations. We build a prototype of the system and demonstrate its flexible features. Depending on the user’s protocol of choice, most remote control operations from a mobile device took less than 5 seconds to execute. An interesting capability of previewing content of other channels via the user’s device while still continuing to watch the program on the viewing station show a difference from today’s IPTV offers. Finally for mobile content delivery, we address a problem of dynamic device profile selection and content adaptation using a classification algorithm to match the best content alternative destined for a mobile device.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Rittwik Jana, Yih-Farn Chen, David C. Gibbon, Yennun Huang, Serban Jora, John Murray, Bin Wei
• Keywords: ICMCS 2007, IPTV Viewing Session, Mobile Device, Viewing Station