Patent ID: 7184526

Claim:
A content delivery system for delivering digital multimedia content to a premise appliance of a user via a digital data network, comprising: an intelligent voice response (IVR) unit responsive via a public switched telephone network to a premise telephone of said user, wherein said IVR unit presents a predetermined menu for selecting a transaction using said premise telephone to receive said digital multimedia content using said premise appliance, and wherein said IVR unit obtains an identification of said user; a content server coupled to said IVR unit and to said digital data network for transferring said digital multimedia content to said premise appliance via said digital data network separate from said public switched telephone network and said premise telephone; a telephone billing system coupled to at least one of said IVR unit and said content server, said telephone billing system creating a call record corresponding to said selected transaction and to a telephone billing account corresponding to said user identification, said call record containing usage information for said transaction; wherein said content server signals said billing system in the event of an incomplete transmission for adjusting said call record.