Patent ID: 8479239
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a video-on-demand network, a home video from an originating user of a video service offered over said video-on-demand network; storing a content of said home video of said originating user in a first node of said video-on-demand network; obtaining, from said originating user, an identity of at least one subscriber of said video-on-demand network who is authorized to view said content of said home video of said originating user over said video-on-demand network, said at least one subscriber being other than said originating user; adding said at least one subscriber to an authorized end users table; modifying a menu of said at least one subscriber to make said content of said home video of said originating user available on said menu, wherein said menu of said at least one subscriber is modified to make said content of said home video from said originating user available based on said at least one subscriber being added to said authorized end users table; and responsive to a menu selection from said menu, providing said content of said home video of said originating user to said at least one subscriber, said at least one subscriber receiving said content of said home video of said originating user in a program stream transmitted through a transmission channel having a specified frequency band over said video-on-demand network at a second node of said video-on-demand network, said second node being different than said first node.