Patent ID: 8272021

Claim:
A method for transmitting Near Video on Demand (NVoD) using Catch and Rest (CAR) and sub-channels, the method comprising: dividing an L-sized content into N segments using the CAR broadcasting scheme, allocating the segments to K channels including a replicate channel, and broadcasting the segments; dividing a first segment S 1 R (S i R represents an i-th segment of a regular channel) into N sb sub-segments again at given bandwidth using the harmonic broadcasting scheme, and dividing an i-th sub-segment S i sb into i segments again; broadcasting the sub-segments [S i.1 sb , . . . , S i.i sb ] in n sub-channels; and adding the segments [S 2 R , . . . , S N R ] to a sub-layer and broadcasting the segments, the first segment broadcast in the first channel being divided and allocated to a number sub-channels, the succeeding segments broadcast in the other channels being just shifted and broadcast; wherein sub-channels [H 1 sb , . . . , H N sb ] for broadcasting the divided segments [S 2 R , . . . , S N R ] are shifted by S 1 sb , and the other sub-channels are shifted by Offset(i) represented by the following equation: Offset ⁡ ( i ) = { 2 × Period R ⁡ ( i - 1 ) if ⁢ ⁢ 2 ≤ i ≤ K - 2 ⁢ R - 1 Offset ⁡ ( i - 1 ) + 3 × Period R ⁡ ( i - 1 ) if ⁢ ⁢ i = K - 2 ⁢ R ⁢ Offset ⁡ ( i - 1 ) + Period R ⁡ ( i - 1 ) in ⁢ ⁢ other ⁢ ⁢ cases ⁢ wherein Period R (i) is a period of the regular channel to which each of i-th sub-channels corresponds.