AXMEDIS - Derived projects

By using AXMEDIS tools and technology, it is possible to realize a large set of content production and distribution services: Internet, satellite and terrestrial broadcast, mobile, towards: PC, STB, I-TV, mobiles, PDAs, etc. In some cases, the distributors may be also interested in having/exploiting in their plants some components of the AXMEDIS factory such as an instance of the AXMEDIS Database to make queries, license editor to produce licenses, AXCP for content adaptation and/or to protect content in massive manner, for content production on demand, etc. In order cases, they can delegate these actions to other parties or to external web services. For content production examples please see http://www.axmedis.org/tiki/index.php?page_ref_id=332

Some examples about the usage of AXMEDIS tools to set up solutions for content distribution are reported in this section. In some of the examples provided, the Distributors may be interested in establishing a connection with the AXMEDIS Certifier and Supervisor, AXCS, for obtaining reports about the rights exploitation or for getting statistical information, in other cases, they may prefer to use their logs and this information is only accessed by other value chain actors for verifying the effective correctness and exploited rights. According to the exposed flexibility, the Distributors with AXMEDIS may decide to change configuration and business model at reasonable costs, and many different models can be supported by the same distribution channel or in more of them.

In the following subsections: some examples are provided related to the demonstrators that will be set up and make accessible for final user in the last year of the AXMEDIS project, starting from the mid of the 2007:

• Content Distribution via Internet toward PC (http://www.axmedis.org/tiki/index.php?page_ref_id=356)
  • Direct download or by means of
  • P2P content sharing of content via AXMEDIA tool;
• Content Distribution toward PDAs and mobiles from: (http://www.axmedis.org/tiki/index.php?page_ref_id=357)
  • Local Distributor kiosks, local communication by means of WiFi;
  • GPRS or UMTS communication;
• Content Distribution via satellite data broadcast toward: (http://www.axmedis.org/tiki/index.php?page_ref_id=358)
  • Local Distributors for B2B, for updating their archive;
  • PC of final users, in push;
  • AXMEDIS compliant Set Top Boxes of final users.
• Content sharing among archives managed by Local Distributors with AXEPTool and from them to (http://www.axmedis.org/tiki/index.php?page_ref_id=359)
  • PC connected and located in the archive;
  • PDA connected to the Local Distributor via WiFi.

In all these cases, the major AXMEDIS tools and features and tools used are:

• Production of AXMEDIS objects and their protection
  • AXMEDIS Editors and AXCP tools
  • Metadata mapping and manipulation
  • Algorithm for extracting fingerprint, descriptors, etc.
  • Programme and publication tools
• Production and posting of licenses, protection
  • DRM editor, Protection Editor and AXCP tools
  • PMS for posting licenses, AXCS for posting protection information
• Registration of AXMEDIS players
  • AXCS and AXMEDIS Registration Portal
• Control of rights exploitation with
  • PMS and AXCS
• Reporting to value chain actors the Action Logs about the exploitation of rights
  • AXCS, CAMART, and AII