Patent ID: 7254635

Claim:
A managing apparatus for managing data necessary for delivering a digital content, comprising: reserving means for reserving a delivery resource for the content; means for selecting a method from among two delivery methods for delivering the content; assigning means for adjusting a bandwidth and a transmission time necessary for delivering the content and for assigning the bandwidth and the transmission time to the reserved delivery resource; storing means for storing the bandwidth and the transmission time to the reserved delivery resource; and transmitting means for transmitting an information of the content and the reserved delivery resource information that includes the bandwidth and the transmission time, wherein a plurality of content providers can request a reservation via a network, wherein a reservation state can be browsed by each content provider, wherein reserved content in the browsed reservation state is displayable in different methods of a display corresponding to each said content provider, wherein a delivery resource is assigned corresponding to a convenience of a content provider, and wherein the transmission time includes information indicative of a start time and an end time for delivering the content.