CA2311309C - Method and apparatus for near video on demand - Google Patents

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CA2311309C
CA2311309C CA002311309A CA2311309A CA2311309C CA 2311309 C CA2311309 C CA 2311309C CA 002311309 A CA002311309 A CA 002311309A CA 2311309 A CA2311309 A CA 2311309A CA 2311309 C CA2311309 C CA 2311309C
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    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
    • H04N21/26208—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists the scheduling operation being performed under constraints
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
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    • H04N21/4821—End-user interface for program selection using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
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    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
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US09/204,523 US7024681B1 (en) 1997-12-04 1998-12-03 Method and apparatus for near video on demand
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