A PROGRAM SCHEDULER FOR AN INTERACTIVE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

摘要

An apparatus and method for distributing video assets in an interactive information distribution system (100) comprising a program scheduler (150) for identifying video assets for distribution, and a plurality of servers (108) coupled to the program scheduler (150) for receiving and storing the identified video assets. A plurality of programmers retrieve titles of the video assets stored in a title database (310) via a plurality of programmer interface front-end modules (302). Upon completion of defining the title-plans, the title-plans are stored in a title-plan database (314) via a back-end module (304). The back-end module (304) is coupled to the plurality of programmer interface front-end modules (302) and the title-plan database. Additionally, a content distribution planner (306) is coupled to the back-end module (304), via the title-plan database (314), and coupled to the plurality of servers (108) for selectively and timely distributing the video assets to the plurality of servers.