Patent ID: 8869217

Claim:
A media files delivery computer system, comprising: a media gateway device; a file server capable of delivering one or more media files in unicast mode to the media gateway device in response to one or more user requests; a FCAST/NORM media streamer capable of delivering a stream of said media files in multicast mode to the media gateway device; and, wherein said FCAST/NORM media streamer delivers a stream of said media files in multicast mode to the media gateway device, and said media gateway device stops sending to the file server user requests for said media files to be received in unicast mode at the media gateway device after at least some of said media files have been cached at the media gateway device, and wherein when said FCAST/NORM media streamer ceases to deliver a stream of said media files in multicast mode, said media gateway device resumes sending user requests to the file server for said media files to be delivered in unicast mode.