AUTOMATED SUBSCRIBER IP MULTICAST PROGRAMMING

摘要

A method, system and computer program product for allowing viewer input regarding of public data network-based multicasts. The present invention includes a first server (16) coupled to the public data network (14) for presenting a list of multicasts to at least a portion of the viewers (12), receiving viewers' votes of the multicasts on the presented list, and determining the number of viewers' votes for the multicasts according to the received votes. A second server (20) is coupled to the first server over the public data network for executing multicast programming according to the determined votes for the multicasts. The first and second server are also coupled to a database (22) in which stored entertainement programs are located.