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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2009
Hee Yong Youn, Seongnam, KR;
Jong Ik Jang, Incheon, KR;
Hee Yong Youn, Seongnam, KR;
Jong Ik Jang, Incheon, KR;
Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate Collaboration, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for transmitting Near Video on Demand (NVoD) using Catch and Rest (CAR) and sub-channels which includes: dividing an L-sized content into N segments using the CAR broadcasting scheme, allocating the segments to K channels including a replicate channel, and broadcasting the segments; dividing a first segment S(Srepresents an i-th segment of a regular channel) into Nsub-segments again at given bandwidth using the harmonic broadcasting scheme, and dividing an i-th sub-segment Sinto i segments again; broadcasting the sub-segments {S, . . . , S} in n sub-channels; and adding the segments {S, . . . , S} to a sub-layer and broadcasting the segments, the first segment broadcast in the first channel being divided and allocated to a few sub-channels, the succeeding segments broadcast in the other channels being just shifted and broadcast.