Patent ID: 8667545

Claim:
A method for transmitting a video session in a communication network, comprising: receiving a request at a video on demand server to purchase the video session from a subscriber, wherein the video on demand server receives the request via a session controller in an internet protocol multi-protocol label switching core backbone network; processing the request by storing a separate copy of the video session at the video on demand server in the communication network, wherein the separate copy of the video session is not shared with other subscribers of the communication network; and transmitting by the video on demand server the video session stored at the video on demand server in the communication network that was purchased by the subscriber simultaneously from the video on demand server to a plurality of endpoints of the subscriber that is used to view the video session while stored in the communication network via a streaming video format, wherein a first one of the plurality of endpoint devices was used to purchase the video session and all other ones of the plurality of endpoint devices were not used to purchase the video session, where each endpoint comprises a video display device, wherein each endpoint comprises an internet protocol based intelligent multi-service endpoint device supporting voice, video and data applications, wherein each one of the plurality of endpoints accesses the video session over a different independent streaming session directly from the video on demand server in the communication network, wherein one of the plurality of endpoint devices includes two video display devices and two different independent streaming sessions are sent to the one of the plurality of endpoint devices that includes two video display devices.