Patent ID: 7895630

Claim:
A method of delivering digital entertainment content to a site having an in-room entertainment system including a digital content receiver, a digital content server, a distribution network and a plurality of guest terminals for selecting and receiving entertainment content transmitted from the digital content server over the distribution network, the method comprising: opening a first reception channel on the digital content receiver at the site; transmitting via satellite, to the first reception channel at the site, a sites file containing an identification of a digital file to be transmitted containing the digital entertainment content and an identification of sites to receive the digital file; opening a second reception channel on the digital content receiver at the site if it is identified in the sites file and if the digital file has not previously been received; transmitting via satellite, to the open second reception channel at the site, the digital file; receiving the digital file with the digital content receiver; and transferring the digital entertainment content contained in the digital file from the digital content receiver to the digital content server.