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Patent
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H04N 7/173 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2176647
A system and method for Video-on-Demand (VOD) satisfying the desire of 'surfers'. The process entails a server operating in a standard NVOD mode, whereby it continuously sends multiple copies of each program on separate channels. Eachcopy is delayed by a staggered time interval. The invention provides a way to fulfill a VOD user request asynchronous with the start of a NVOD transmission but which still makes primary use of the NVOD transmission for that requestor. The system and method combines independent server service satisfying an asynchronous request for only a short duration, usually less than or equal to the NVOD staggered time interval, and then aligns that requestor with an immediately previously commenced NVOD transmission.
Ganek Alan George
Herzberg Louis Paul
Ruiz Antonio
Willner Barry Edward
International Business Machines Corporation
Rosen Arnold
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