1. BRIDGET Architectures
Diego Gibellino
Telecom Italia
1st BRIDGET Workshop
Paris – 16th December 2013

2. A Reference Model
The BRIDGET solution defines distributed software systems interacting to support bridgets production and consumption
The architecture includes:
Definition of the Solution
Systems & Component Interfaces
Signalling
Media and Metadata Formats

3. Key elements
Component-based software modules designed to be compliant with the MPEG-M Standard.
Professional Authoring Tool: designed for broadcasters or content creators, allows to create and extract brid­gets from videos stored in a local database and/or other databases accessible on the Internet.
End User’s Player: a player typically running on second screens (tablets or smartphones), that allows to select a particular brid­get among the ones offered, and present the resulting content or AR scene.
End User’s Authoring Tool: A simplified version of the Professional Authoring Tool that allows users to search and create bridgets by themself using their content or content freely available on the Internet.

4. Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband Model A
Broadcaster or Service Provider Back-endnet
Bridgets DB
Authoring Tool
Retrieval of Bridget information based on EventID
StreamEvents embedded in the transport stream
Application Server
Notify StreamEvents from broadcast
Interactive Application in auto-run
Second Screen Interactive Application

5. Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband Model B
Broadcaster or Service Provider Back-endnet
Bridgets DB
Authoring Tool
Application Registration & Bridget information
Application Server
Second Screen Interactive Application

6. Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband Model C
Broadcaster or Service Provider Back-endnet
Bridgets DB
Authoring Tool
Retrieval of Bridget information based on EventID
Application Server
Interactive Application in auto-run
Second Screen Interactive Application

7. The Second Screen Application
Second Screen Device
Second Screen Application
(Bridget Player)
Standardised, component-based player running on clients
Provides framework functionalities to run Bridget Apps (MP4 Scenes)
Bridget App
(MP4 Scene)
Interaction with Remote Server and First Screen

8. Thank You!