Patent ID: 7113738

Claim:
A method for booking and scheduling a request made by a first party to a second party for broadcast at a preferred time of first party controlled program content having at least one of audio and video information of a given time duration and having a required minimum broadcast bandwidth to be broadcast by a station associated with the second party and has a fixed maximum bandwidth broadcast capability comprising the steps of: said second party maintaining a schedule of programs that have been booked for broadcast by the station, each booked program having a date of broadcast, time for broadcast during the day, time duration and broadcast bandwidth; said first party submitting a request for broadcast of first party program content by the station to said second party with the request having the parameters of program time duration, required bandwidth and a preferred broadcast time during one or more days of a week; and said second party checking the request against the schedule of already booked programs scheduled for broadcast for availability of the requested minimum bandwidth for the time duration and preferred time of broadcast of the request made by said first party.