Patent ID: 8078748
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of delivering video contents to a client from a server system comprising one or a plurality of servers via a network by streaming, wherein the server system comprises a first storage area and a second storage area, and the method comprises the steps of: delivering to the client a first video content stored in the first storage area from the server system to start playback thereof on the client; delivering to the client a list of title information of at least one of additional video contents stored in the second storage area from the server system to display the list on the client, the additional video contents being separate from the first video contents stored in the first storage area, and the title information of the additional video contents not being a part of or a transformation of the additional video contents; storing one or a plurality of the additional video contents stored in the second storage area; delivering data for updating the list from the server system to display the updated list on the client, where the updating is responsive to the additional video contents having been stored in the second storage area, such that a user who is watching the video contents is notified that the one or the plurality of the additional video contents have been stored in the second storage area; receiving at the client an input of a designation to designate one of the video contents in the updated list as a second video content; transmitting the designation from the client to the server system; and delivering the second video content from the server system to the client in response to the designation to play back the second video content on the client, wherein: each of the video contents stored in the second storage area is related with attribute information; the video contents in the list are selected from among the video contents stored in the second storage area based on the attribute information; and, the attribute information comprises time attribute information; and the selection is made based on the time attribute information.