Patent ID: 8250180

Claim:
A content delivery apparatus, comprising: a delivery server; a storage apparatus operatively coupled to the delivery server and including at least one logical unit for storing data regarding content items; and a management apparatus operatively coupled to the delivery server and including a content management unit configured to manage the delivery server and the storage apparatus, wherein the delivery server includes: a conversion unit configured to acquire, in response to a content addition request from the content management unit, original data regarding a content item designated by the content addition request from an external origin server, to convert the acquired original data to converted data where the converted data comprises a header file, a data file including an application header, and a hint file including an offset for acquiring a dataset, and to store the converted data for delivery in a first logical unit; and a delivery unit configured to read the converted data from the first logical unit in response to a content delivery request from a client for requesting delivery of the content item and to transmit the read converted data for delivery to the client.