EFFICIENT STREAMED CONTENT DELIVERY TO PORTABLE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

摘要

Described is a system and method of receiving content on a portable mobile communications device from a mobile TV service provider. A mobile pointer record 410 is created and stored within the portable mobile communications device 110 that contains data that identifies content to be delivered from the mobile TV service provider 132. The mobile pointer record data 410 is sent to a content server 640 maintained by the mobile TV service provider 132 where a corresponding content server pointer record 420 is created and stored such that the mobile TV service provider 132 associates the content server pointer record 420 with stored content. When desired, a request is sent to the mobile TV service provider 132 from the portable mobile communications device 110 by selecting the desired mobile pointer record 720 for the content. The mobile TV service provider 132 identifies the content via the corresponding content server pointer record 420 and delivers the requested stored content 740 to the portable mobile communications device 110.