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1.  Business Concepts

The mobile stream media technique is to compress the video and audio data and then put the compressed data into the web service. The mobile terminal subscriber can watch the video, while the rest data is downloading at the same time, without waiting for all the data to be downloaded. In fact, the mobile stream media technique is the inevitable outcome when the techniques to network video and mobile communication develop into a certain stage. It integrates many network video techniques and involves the techniques of collecting, compressing, storing the stream media and the techniques of network communication.

2.  Business category

Stream Media, VOD

The service provider compresses and encodes the stream media data into the format that Unicom demands and stores the data in the servers. The provider also put the data information and the links onto the portal of the stream media. The final users can access the portal to find and choose to play the related information they interests.

Stream Media, living broadcast

The stream media encoding server compresses and encodes the real time stream media into the format that Unicom demands. Then the service provider distributes the data to the player of the terminal by stream media encoding server. According to the differences of the real time signal sources, the service can be divided into TV living broadcast and traffic and road monitoring.

Download and play

The subscriber can download the stream media into the local terminal and then play them at any time they like.

For the service of Download and Play, the main restrict lies in the processing and storing capacity of the terminal. The data providers can facture high quality video (broad band, high frame speed). But the user should take the download time and the storing capacity of the terminal into consideration.

3.  How to find and use the stream media

The stream media service allows the legal subscriber to log into the Portal of the stream media mobile subscriber. The subscribers can explore and look for the interested media and then download them or play them on line. At the same time, the service will record the history of consumed service and charge the users for the service and make statistical study.

To find the stream media is a process to find the proper stream data. The detailed content is that the subscribers use a handset or other mobile terminal which support the stream media service. They have to access the portal of the stream media website and then browse the pages, or look for in the categories, or directly use the search function to find the proper media.

To use the stream media is to further use the stream media service after finding the proper media. It includes playing the stream media on line, downloading the stream media, watching the real time stream media broadcasting and so on.

When finding the stream media, the function of digital network address is supported.

4.  The service of the first 3 months is free, the information fee is zero.

5.  Now there is no relationship of subscription and quit.

Updated on June 2005


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