Patent ID: 9213672
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for delivery of multimedia services comprising: at least two regional servers, each coupled to a high-speed network backbone carrying content, a first regional server configured to customize content received from a content provider to form a first version of multicast content, a second regional server configured to customize content received from the content provider to form a second version of multicast content, and the first and second regional servers configured to provide a second level of caching for the content received from the content provider; and a plurality of caching servers, including a first caching server coupled to the first regional server and a second caching server coupled to the second regional server, each caching server configured to receive and cache the customized multicast content received from the coupled regional server responsive to receiving a request from an end-user system for the customized multicast content, and to provide the customized multicast content formed by the coupled regional server to the requesting end-user system.