Patent ID: 9706255
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04H,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of distributing a video program to first and second devices, the method comprising: receiving a request for the video program from one of the first and second devices, both registered in an account at a server; transmitting the video program, but not information related to the video program, to a first selected one of the two devices according to a distance between the two devices; transmitting the information related to the video program, but not the video program, to a second selected one of the two devices according to the distance; if the distance is less than a predefined threshold, selecting the first device as the first selected one device and selecting the second device as the second selected one device; and if the distance is greater than the predefined threshold, selecting the second device as the first and second selected one devices, and transmitting no video program and no information related to the video program to the first device.