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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Shankar Srivastav, Suwanee, GA (US);
Timothy C. Richards, Cumming, GA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing video-on-demand (VOD) content to a subscriber may be disclosed. First, a request for a VOD session may be received from a companion device. Next, in response to the received request for the VOD session, a catalog of VOD content may be sent to the companion device. A selection of VOD content listed in the catalog of VOD content may then be received. A digital transport adaptor (DTA) corresponding to the received request for the VOD session may be identified. Next, the VOD session may be setup with the identified DTA and the selected VOD content may be streamed to the identified DTA.