Patent ID: 8150906
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information delivery system comprising: a plurality of customer devices, each of the plurality of customer devices assigned to a customer and configured to generate content data; a center system including a plurality of encoding devices; and a plurality of terminals, the customer devices, the center system and the terminals interconnected via a network, wherein upon accessing the center system by a customer device, the center system transmits to the customer device a software, the software being configured to encode the content data generated by the customer device into a content file by compressing the content data into a particular format for the center system, the software further including access information to access an order form, and including an order form file, and the order form including an option to assign the order form file to a file format specific area in which generated content stream data is stored, upon reception of the software from the center system, the customer device upon reception of the content file and the completed order form at the center system, an encoding device of said center system decompresses said content file from the particular format received from the customer device, and causes the encoding device to generate a content stream for delivery to said terminals over said network, an encoding format of the content stream corresponding to the encoding format designated by said completed order form.