Patent ID: 6965593
Filing Date: 2005-11-15
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting digital content to a plurality of separate users accessing Internet services at least in part via conventional two-way Internet protocol (IP) connection, said digital content comprising digital data and/or digital audio and/or digital video, the method comprising the steps of: a) formatting said digital content in accordance with an IP protocol to generate IP digital data; b) providing a streaming transmission of the IP digital data from a transmission site to a remote Internet point of presence of an Internet service provider (ISP) through one or more substantially one-way data flow bandwidth portions of a digital communications medium that is substantially unaffected by conventional two-way IP Internet communications traffic; c) multicastiag the IP digital data transmitted by step (b) from the remote Internet point of presence to a plurality of separate receiving Internet user apparatus connected to but distant from the remote Internet point of presence; and d) contemporaneously with step c), transmitting relatively time-insensitive additional IP digital data via a conventional two-way IP connection that is separate from the one-way data flow bandwidth portions to the remote Internet point of presence and then to the plurality of separate receiving Internet user apparatus;