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

Claim 12:
13. Computer readable apparatus comprising a non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium comprising at least one computer program having a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions configured to, when executed on a digital processing apparatus, cause a computerized apparatus to:
receive data representative of a request from a computerized client device in data communication with a network, the data representative of the request indicating particular digitally rendered content, the digitally rendered content packetized using at least an Internet Protocol (IP);
determine whether an appropriate multicast stream comprising the packetized digitally rendered content exists;
based at least on the determination indicating that the appropriate multicast stream comprising the requested packetized digitally rendered content does not exist:
create 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);
cause the computerized client device to join the new multicast stream via receipt of the new MPTS; and
identify and re-format the requested packetized digitally rendered content from the new MPTS into a format capable of being utilized by the computerized client device; and

cause delivery, over the network and via the new MPTS, of the packetized digitally rendered content to the computerized client device.