Patent ID: 8429697

Claim:
A computer program product for use in a multimedia transport system that is network connectable to one or more client systems that may receive and output multimedia content, the computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media having encoded thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed upon one or more computer processors, performs 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, the method comprising: 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: 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 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.