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Method and system of building a wanted list queue for a user in a content distribution system

  • US 9,137,556 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2011
  • Issued: 09/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of communicating content comprising:

  • establishing a fixed number of mailbox slots in a network partition of a memory of a user device, each mailbox slot comprising an open state and filled state;

    establishing a virtual folder having a virtual folder limit in a user partition of the memory of the user device;

    establishing a playlist in a user partition of the memory of the user device;

    communicating metadata for a plurality of content titles from a head end including content titles;

    generating a screen display comprising the plurality of content titles from the metadata;

    generating a selection corresponding to a first content title of the plurality of content titles from a user interface;

    adding metadata for the first content title to a wanted list;

    displaying the wanted list on the screen display associated with the user device;

    communicating tuning data for the first content title from the head end to the user device;

    when a first mailbox slot of the fixed number of mailbox slots is in the open state, tuning the user device based on the tuning data to receive the first content title;

    when a first mailbox slot of the fixed number of mailbox slots is in the open state, receiving the first content title corresponding to the metadata at the user device in response to the tuning;

    when a first mailbox slot of the fixed number of mailbox slots is in the open state, storing the content corresponding to the first content title in the first mailbox slot of the user device after receiving;

    after storing, moving the first content to the virtual folder when space is available in the virtual folder based on the virtual folder limit;

    selecting the first content for playback from the virtual folder;

    after playback begins moving the content from the virtual folder to the playlist; and

    after moving the first content to the virtual folder, receiving and storing a second content from the wanted list in the first mailbox slot.

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