Patent ID: 8656041

Claim:
A system for distributing a multimedia streaming service request based on a wide area network, the system comprising: a user terminal for requesting multimedia streaming service; a wide area server for selecting a local server which is disposed nearest to the user terminal, wherein the local server has node availability and service availability, and wherein the wide area server provides contents requested by the user terminal to the selected local server; and a local server for providing the multimedia streaming service to the user terminal using the contents provided from the wide area server; wherein the wide area server comprises: a wide area contents service node for storing a plurality of contents for providing to the user terminal; and at least one wide area request distributor for storing tables having information that includes node availability, service availability, and proximity of the local servers, the wide area request distributor is configured to select the local server nearest to the user terminal based on the stored tables, and for providing contents requested by the user terminal to the selected local server from the wide area contents service node, the at least one area request distributor further comprising a pending table for inserting an IP address of the user terminal requesting a service.