Patent ID: 8914460
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of delivering data in at least first and second categories of service from a Video-on-Demand (VoD) system to a client device, the method comprising: beginning delivery of content from the VoD system to the client device, wherein the client device automatically receives content from the first category of service identified by a flag but must have subscriptions to receive specified content from the second category of service; starting a client device to receive the content from a data stream at an initial delivery location between a start point and an end point of the data stream; reading and processing the received content from the initial delivery location to the end point of the data stream; evaluating whether the content is complete; determining that the content is not complete; reading additional content from the data stream; identifying the content from the start point to the initial delivery location in the data stream; receiving the content from the start point to the initial delivery location; and determining that the content is complete.