Patent ID: 7548988
Filing Date: 2009-06-16
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing software, comprising the steps of: receiving broadcast information at a receiver of a user from a broadcast distribution system having one or more broadcast channels for broadcasting the broadcast information; wherein select ones of the one or more broadcast channels are designated for the transmission of one or more discrete software data streams; wherein the one or more discrete software data streams are received over the select ones of the one or more broadcast channels at a scheduled time, each of the one or more discrete software data streams having a unique ID associated therewith, which unique ID for each of the one or more discrete software streams is associated therewith by an associated software vendor and each of the unique IDs is unique to a user; the user associated with a monitoring interface of the user that is connected to the receiver, the unique ID associated with that user and a desired one of the one or more discrete software streams; selecting, in the monitoring interface associated with the user, selected ones of the one or more discrete software data streams according to the respective unique IDs for download via the receiver; downloading the selected one or more discrete software data streams to a user storage device during the scheduled time for use by the user, the user storage device connected to the receiver through the monitoring interface; and deleting the unique ID from the monitoring interface for each of the one or more discrete software data streams downloaded after downloading thereof.