Patent ID: 8135844
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content-providing server for executing content transmission to a client and content recording processing, the server comprising: a tuner; a data transmitter/receiver executing communication processing between the server and a client, wherein the communication processing includes communication of control information and content received by the tuner, the received content including a first content received by the tuner over a first channel and a second content received by the tuner over a second channel, the first channel being associated with a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and the first content being received by accessing the first URL, the second channel being associated with a second Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and the second content being received by accessing the second URL; a memory device including: a content manager processing the content information to be provided to the client; and a content deliverer processing the received content, the content deliverer comprising: wherein the data transmitter/receiver uses the combined URL to provide access to the first content and the second content to the client by establishing a connection between the server and the client, and wherein the combined URL is used to switch between the first content and the second content by maintaining the connection and without setting a new URL to switch from the first content that is received over the first channel to the second content that is received over the second channel.