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Remote storage digital video recorder that supports shared and per-subscriber content rights

  • US 8,832,724 B2
  • Filed: 12/06/2012
  • Issued: 09/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) system comprising:

  • a network interface to communicate data between the RS-DVR system and a plurality of subscriber systems via a network, the plurality of subscriber systems providing media content to a plurality of subscribers;

    a file system module coupled to the network interface;

    an ingest agent coupled to the file system module to receive media content files, the media content files including shared rights media content files and per-subscriber rights media content files;

    a processing logic module to determine, for each media content file of the received media content files, whether the respective media content file comprises a shared rights media content file having shared rights or a per-subscriber rights media content file that does not have shared rights, resulting in shared rights media content files of the received media content files and per-subscriber rights media content files of the received media content files;

    a shared storage architecture coupled to the file system to store the shared rights media content files, each of the stored shared rights media content files comprising a shared instantiation of one or more encoded media segments representing a recorded version of a respective shared rights media content file that is stored on behalf of a plurality of different subscribers of the plurality of subscribers; and

    a per-subscriber storage architecture coupled to the file system to store the per-subscriber rights media content files, each of the stored per-subscriber rights media content files comprising a separate instantiation of one or more encoded media segments representing a recorded version of a respective per-subscriber rights media content file that is stored on behalf of an individual subscriber of the plurality of subscribers and only accessible by that individual subscriber.

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