Patent ID: 7003793

Claim:
A system for providing video-on-demand (VOD) services in a wireless network environment, the system comprising: a VOD terminal which displays video information; a wireless telecommunications server which provides a service menu for selection by the VOD terminal; a VOD server which provides service information related to a VOD item selected by the VOD terminal from the service menu provided by the wireless telecommunications server; an encoder which encodes video content input into the VOD server into a first format type to be stored in the VOD server; and a converter which converts non-video content input into the VOD server into a second format type to be stored in the VOD server, wherein the VOD server comprises: a first storage unit that stores video information input into the VOD server; a second storage unit that stores non-video information input into the VOD server; a first common gateway interface that converts the stored video information into image files for wireless telecommunications; a second common gateway interface that converts the stored non-video information into wireless markup language files for wireless telecommunications; and a third storage unit that stores the image files and the wireless markup language files.