Patent ID: 8588249
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for delivering content requested by a user to a subscriber-user device, comprising: receiving one or more video content packets, the one or more video content packets including the video content signal; stripping first transport protocol information from the one or more video content packets at a cable modem termination system, wherein the first transport protocol is internet protocol multicast; generating program information data packets associated with the stripped video content packets at the cable modem termination system; forwarding the stripped video content packets and program information data packets to a customer premises device over a broadband communication network using a data channel at a first frequency, wherein the program information data packets associates at least a program number, a downstream frequency and a multicast address; receiving a first request for first video content at a first device of the customer premise device from a first subscriber device; receiving a second request for second video content at the first device of the customer premise device from a second subscriber device; determining, based on the received first and the second request, a downstream channel frequency corresponding to the first and the second video content; notifying, by a second device of the customer premise device, the receiver for selecting the downstream channel frequency; in response to receiving the notification, selecting the downstream channel frequency and receiving the one or more stripped video content packets from the broadband communication network at the receiver of the customer premises device over a second channel at the selected downstream frequency; identifying the first and the second video content using unique identifier corresponding to the first and second video content; formatting the one or more stripped video content packets with second transport protocol information based upon the program information packets at the customer premise device, wherein the second transport protocol is internet protocol multicast; and forwarding the one or more video content packets to the first and the second subscriber-user device from the customer premise equipment according to the second transport protocol information.