METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION AND INVENTORY MAINTENANCE OF MEDIA OBJECTS IN A REGION
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- requesting, by a regional server, one or more media objects of a collection of media objects based on an actual demand and/or a perceived demand for the one or more media objects within a region, the request being made of a media server having the entire collection of media objects;
receiving, by the regional server, from the media server, the requested media objects; and
repeating said requesting and said receiving in response to a change in the actual and/or perceived demand for a portion of the collection of media objects.
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for regional and enterprise servers in a media object partial publication and inventory maintenance system are described herein. In various embodiments, a regional server may repeatedly request and receive, from an enterprise server, media objects of a collection of media objects based on actual and/or perceived demand, achieving a partial publication of the collection of media objects. Also, the regional server may monitor a physical inventory associated with a media object and, when the inventory falls below a threshold, facilitate the creation of additional physical inventory using the media object. Additionally, the regional server may notify the enterprise server of the creational of inventory to facilitate the enterprise server in acquiring digital rights associated with the media object.
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21 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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requesting, by a regional server, one or more media objects of a collection of media objects based on an actual demand and/or a perceived demand for the one or more media objects within a region, the request being made of a media server having the entire collection of media objects; receiving, by the regional server, from the media server, the requested media objects; and repeating said requesting and said receiving in response to a change in the actual and/or perceived demand for a portion of the collection of media objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A regional server comprising:
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a processor; and an inventory module operated by the processor and adapted to monitor a physical inventory corresponding to a media object that is locally available to the regional server to determine whether a count of the physical inventory has fallen below a threshold, if the count of the physical inventory has fallen below a threshold, notify a user of the count of the physical inventory to facilitate the user in increasing the physical inventory using the locally available media object, and upon an increase of the physical inventory, notify an enterprise server of the increase in physical inventory to facilitate the enterprise server in obtaining digital rights to the portion of the physical inventory corresponding to the increase. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An article of manufacture comprising:
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a storage medium; and a plurality of programming instructions stored on the storage medium and configured to program an apparatus to receive a request from a regional server for one or more media objects of a collection of media objects, the request based on an actual and/or a perceived demand for the one or more media objects within a region, the regional server having only a portion of the collection of media objects locally available, and the apparatus having the entire collection of media objects locally available, and provide the one or more media objects to the regional server. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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