Patent ID: 8789096
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method that communicates a media content event of interest from a media content distribution center, wherein the media content event of interest is defined by a serial ordered plurality of portions that begins with a first portion and is followed by a second portion, the method comprising: concurrently broadcasting a plurality of first media content streams to a plurality of media devices, wherein each of the plurality of first media content streams include a concluding portion of the media content event of interest, wherein the concluding portion begins with the second portion of the plurality of portions of the media content event of interest, wherein the second portion is followed by remaining portions of the media content event of interest, wherein the concluding portion of each of the plurality of first media content streams are broadcast offset in time from each other by a duration that includes at least the second portion of the media content event of interest; receiving a request from a first media device of the plurality of media devices, wherein the request identifies the media content event of interest; identifying a first one of the broadcast plurality of first media content streams that is currently broadcasting the second portion of the media content event of interest at a time that the request is received from the first media device, wherein the concluding portion of the media content event of interest in the identified first one of the broadcast plurality of first media content streams is receivable at the first media device; transmitting an instruction to the first media device in response to the communicated request, wherein the instruction has information that identifies the first one of the concurrently broadcast plurality of first media content streams; and concurrently transmitting a second media content stream containing an initial portion of the media content event of interest to the first media device, wherein the initial portion includes the first portion and the second portion of the media content event of interest.