Patent ID: 8151308

Claim:
In a multimedia transport system that is network connectable to one or more client systems that may receive and output multimedia content, a method for modifying the behavior of the multimedia transport system by increasing the number of streams the multimedia content transported to a client system in order to provide load balancing when system bandwidth may be low, comprising: an act of detecting at a remote multimedia server that a client system includes the capability to simultaneously receive a plurality of multimedia content streams and store at least a portion thereof; based on the detection, the method further includes: an act of sending a first portion of multimedia content from the remote multimedia server in a first stream to the client system, the first stream being sent at a first carrier base frequency to be received at a first input device which receives the first base frequency; and an act of simultaneously sending with the first portion, a second portion of the same multimedia content in a second stream to the client system in order to facilitate sending the multimedia content in less time so as to free up bandwidth sooner, the second stream being sent at a second carrier base frequency to be received at a second input device which receives the second base frequency.