Claims
- 1. A method for delivery of high-performance online multimedia services comprising:
assigning general content to be multicast to a multicast destination address; customizing the general content to suit a first area and thus forming a first version of the content; customizing the general content to suit a second area and thus forming a second version of the content; multicasting the first version to an end-user system in the first area; and multicasting the second version to an end-user system in the second area.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first area corresponds to a region served by a first regional data center, and the second area corresponds to a region served by a second regional data center.
- 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first area corresponds to a locality served by a first modified head-end, and the second area corresponds to a locality served by a second modified head-end.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of prior U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/427,778, entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING ACCESS TO USER RESOURCES, filed on Oct. 26, 1999 by Ralph W. Brown, Robert Keller, Milo S. Medin and David Temkin, which is a continuation-in-part of prior U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/811,586, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,370,571, entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING HIGH-PERFORMANCE ONLINE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES, filed on Mar. 5, 1997, by Milo S. Medin, and is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/428,235, entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING AND AUTHORIZING USERS, filed on Oct. 26, 1999 by Ralph W. Brown, Robert Keller, and Milo S. Medin, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
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