Patent ID: 8910220

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request from a user to transmit specified content to a subscriber domain in which the user resides; subsequent to receiving the request for the specified content, accessing profile information assigned to the subscriber domain, the profile information indicating multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain; utilizing the profile information assigned to the subscriber domain to identify versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain; and to satisfy the request from the user, initiating transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain: wherein receiving the request includes: receiving the request, from a first playback device operated by the user in the subscriber domain, the request received from the first playback device to transmit the specified content to the first playback device, the profile information indicating that the first playback device supports playback of the specified content in accordance with a first encoding format, the method further comprising: utilizing the profile information to identify that a second playback device in the subscriber domain supports a second encoding format, the second encoding format different than the first encoding format; and wherein initiating transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain includes: in response to receiving the request from the first playback device: i) transmitting the specified content in the first encoding format to the subscriber domain over a first channel of a shared communication link, the first channel supporting data transmissions over a first carrier frequency, and ii) transmitting the specified content in the second encoding format to the subscriber domain over a second channel of the shared communication link, the second channel supporting data transmissions over a second carrier frequency.