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 have built a prototype of the system and demonstrated 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 differentiates it from today´s IPTV offers. Finally for mobile content delivery, we address the problem of dynamic device profile selection and content adaptation using a classification algorithm to match the best content alternative destined for a mobile.