VIRTUAL CONTENT STORE IN INTERACTIVE SERVICES ARCHITECTURE
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for providing a virtual content store, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for a content stream;
determining whether the content stream is available from a central content vault; and
in response to determining that the content stream is available from the central content vault;
incrementing a retention counter associated with the content stream,establishing a streaming session to a subscriber, andproviding the requested content stream to the subscriber from the central content vault via the streaming session.
4 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A virtual content store may be provided. Upon receiving a request for a content stream from a subscriber at a regional headend, a central content vault may be examined to determine whether the content stream is available. Once the content stream is determined to be available in the central content vault, a streaming session may be established to the subscriber from the regional headend. The content stream may be retrieved from the central content vault and provided to the subscriber via the streaming session.
19 Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method for providing a virtual content store, the method comprising:
-
receiving a request for a content stream; determining whether the content stream is available from a central content vault; and in response to determining that the content stream is available from the central content vault; incrementing a retention counter associated with the content stream, establishing a streaming session to a subscriber, and providing the requested content stream to the subscriber from the central content vault via the streaming session. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
-
-
13. A system for providing a virtual content store, the system comprising:
-
a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is operative to; receive a request over a network from a regional headend for a content stream to be transmitted to a subscriber, determine whether the content stream is available on a central content vault, in response to determining that the content stream is available on the central content vault, establish a transmission session between the central content vault and the regional headend, and provide the content stream to the regional headend for transmission to the subscriber via the transmission session. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
-
-
17. A method for providing a virtual content store, the method comprising:
-
receiving a request from at least one of a plurality of regional headends for a content stream to be transmitted to a subscriber; determining whether the content stream is available from a central content vault; in response to determining that the content stream is not available from the central content vault; ingesting the content stream to the central content vault from a content provider, and creating a retention record associated with the content stream, wherein the retention record comprises a viewer counter and a license expiration date; incrementing the viewer counter associated with the retention record associated with the content stream; and transmitting the content stream from the central content vault to the subscriber via a streaming session established between the at least one of the regional headends and the subscriber. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
-
Specification