Patent ID: 8312161

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the one or more processors, the medium storing instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: divide a file pertaining to a title into a sequence of data blocks, the sequence of data blocks partitioned into a first portion and a second portion, where each of the data blocks includes at least several Kbytes; form a header from the data blocks in the first portion, the data blocks in the header being consecutive, wherein a data size of the header is predetermined to ensure a smooth playback of the title at a remote device; and form N segments from the data blocks in the second portion, where N is a finite integer, wherein each of the N segments includes a different set of data blocks so that every N-th data block is included in one of the N segments and the data blocks in each of the N segments are nonconsecutive.