Patent ID: 11924521
Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computerized method providing digitally rendered content over a network having a plurality of users associated therewith, the computerized method comprising:
receiving data representative of a request from a computerized client device in data communication with the network, the data representative of the request indicating particular digitally rendered content, the digitally rendered content packetized using at least an Internet Protocol (IP);
determining whether an appropriate multicast stream comprising the packetized digitally rendered content exists;
based at least on the determining indicating that the appropriate multicast stream comprising the requested packetized digitally rendered content does not exist:
creating a new multicast stream for delivery of the requested packetized digitally rendered content to the computerized client device via a new multi-program transport stream (MPTS);
causing the computerized client device to join the new multicast stream via receipt of the new MPTS; and
identifying and re-formatting the requested packetized digitally rendered content from the new MPTS into a format capable of being utilized by the computerized client device; and

causing delivery, via the new MPTS, of the packetized digitally rendered content to the computerized client device.