Patent ID: 7634076

Claim:
A network for managing and distributing digital media to a terminal of a user via internet protocol, and providing one or more data signals, video signals and audio signals to subscribers without utilizing all available bandwidths of a high-speed connection, the network comprising: a central office having a first plurality of servers and a first keyboard video mouse switch wherein the first keyboard video mouse switch is connected to the first plurality of servers by a first node and further wherein the digital media is stored in the first plurality of servers; and a first substation having a first multiplexer wherein the first substation is remote with respect to the terminal and the central office and further wherein the first plurality of servers is in communication with the first multiplexer using the first node; a first digital media file of the digital media wherein the first digital media file is transferred from the first plurality of servers to the first multiplexer of the first substation using the first node wherein the first multiplexer of the first substation transmits the first digital media file to the terminal of the user; a second digital media file of the digital media stored in the first plurality of servers wherein the central office transmits the second digital media file from the first plurality of servers to the terminal of the user; a second keyboard video mouse switch connected to the first plurality of servers wherein the second digital media file is transferred from the first plurality of servers to the terminal using the second keyboard video mouse switch and further wherein the second keyboard video mouse switch is a different switch than the first keyboard video mouse switch: and a smart card that authorizes the user to obtain the first digital media file and the second digital media file from the first plurality of servers at a first location and at a second location remote from the first location.