Providing multimedia services to a diverse set of consumer devices

This paper describes an assortment of techniques and a system to adapt multimedia content. The ability to do so allows service providers to offer a wide range of multimedia services to users with various client capabilities. We present a system that is capable of serving a variety of client devices. To do so, we propose novel transcoding and video summarization algorithms. Additionally, we describe a system that invokes these algorithms dynamically as a function of the network, terminal and user information. The impact on the consumer is the added functionality that can be realized and the quality of their service.