H ELECTRICITY
H04 ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
H04N21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
H04N21/20 Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
H04N21/25 Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
H04N21/262 Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists