Patent ID: 8561115

Claim:
A video server comprising: a contents storage for storing video contents comprising a plurality of programs, each one of the plurality of programs having a respective content ID; and a stream transmitter for generating and transmitting a digest stream that is a single stream into which a plurality of digests are combined, each of said digests having a predetermined time length, cut out from a respective different one of the plurality of programs stored in the contents storage , wherein each one of the plurality of digests includes one or more parts cut from a corresponding one of the plurality of programs; and each one of the digests is associated with the content ID of the corresponding one of the programs from which the respective one of the digests is cut, wherein the stream transmitter is operable to transmit a plurality of the digest streams such that each one of the plurality of the digest streams includes the digests in a different order than other ones of the plurality of the digest streams, and wherein a pausing period is provided in the digest streams respectively such that a rotation of the pausing period is performed among the digest streams.