Patent ID: 7191215
Filing Date: 2007-03-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing instantaneous media-on-demand services over a network, the method comprising: receiving a request from a subscriber ordering box that locally stores a plurality of residing objects, each pertaining to a beginning portion of one of titles being offered in a library so that a corresponding one of the residing objects is played back as soon as an order for a title is placed with the subscriber ordering box; and identifying two or more boxes to provide distributed objects pertaining to the title to the subscriber ordering box, each of the boxes configured to be able to order one of the titles, wherein the subscriber ordering box proceeds with a playback of the corresponding one of the residing objects pertaining to the title while downloading the distributed objects from the one or more boxes, and data blocks in the corresponding one of the residing objects are consecutive while data blocks in each of the distributed objects are non-consecutive.