Patent ID: 8224890

Claim:
A method for composing a recipe comprising: receiving, at a computer, a first request for a content file, wherein the first request includes a time value; generating, at the computer, a second request for the recipe based on at least the first request; generating a byte offset: corresponding to the time value included in the first request, and used to reference data present in the content file; generating a header based on the generated byte offset; composing the recipe, based on at least the second request, including a data structure comprising: the generated header, one or more rows, each row including a file identifier and a corresponding content portion range of an identified file, and at least one or more instructions to compose the content file from a plurality of content sources storing distinct portions of the content file, wherein at least one of the file identifiers is a name used to reference the content file, generating one or more bytes for at least one corresponding content portion range of the identified file, wherein the one or more bytes correspond to data present in the content file; and providing the composed recipe to a content delivery node in response to the second request.