Machine-to-Machine Technology Applied to Integrated Video Services via Context Transfer

The integration of people devices and services through the use of Machine-to-Machine technology has been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, an important economic trend. Mobile video services have become more convenient with respect to mobility, but the quality of the video they produce is limited. In this study, an integrated video service framework "DMCT-S" based on Machine-to-Machine communications is proposed, in which a mobile video service can be integrated into a home video service. In the integrated framework, people can easily watch a low-quality video from a mobile service and transfer the video playing context to another video service to continue the twin high-quality video with same content played in a smart home. This seamless and integrated framework results in vastly increased people convenience.