Patent ID: 8087055

Claim:
Apparatus for distributing a stream of recorded content to a first plurality of content consumers who receive streamed content files, comprising: a payment center that accepts payment for a requested content file for individual file content delivery by a first communication system for delivery to one content consumer of a second plurality of content consumers, who request and purchase individual content files; a detector, independent of individual file content delivery, that detects said request for delivery of said requested content file; a demand database coupled to said detector and configured to store an identity of said requested content file of said detected delivery request; a content stream selector that selects said requested content file additionally for inclusion in a content stream of successive content files, each content file of which having been requested for purchase by individual consumers of said second plurality of content consumers, said selection based on at least said identity of said requested content file of said detected request having been stored in said demand database; a content stream generator that forms said content stream in response to said selection by said content stream selector; and a second communication system through which said generated streamed content is delivered, separably operable from said first communication system, to the first plurality of content consumers who have subscribed for delivery of said generated streamed content.