Patent ID: 9413846
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: storing obligatorily acquired digital content items in a service-controlled portion of one or more local storage machines of a computer based on service-commands provided via a centralized management service computer; storing voluntarily acquired digital content items in a user-controlled portion of the one or more local storage machines of the computer based on user-commands provided via user input to the computer; deleting the obligatorily acquired digital content items from the service-controlled portion of the one or more local storage machines based on service-commands provided via the centralized management service computer, wherein the obligatorily acquired digital content items cannot be deleted from the service-controlled portion based on user-commands; deleting the voluntarily acquired digital content items from the user-controlled portion of the one or more local storage machines based on user-commands; identifying a plurality of sources storing portions of a digital content item, the digital content item including a plurality of pieces, the plurality of sources including the service-controlled portion and one or more peer computers of a peer-to-peer network; for each piece of the plurality of pieces of the digital content item, downloading the piece to the user-controlled portion from a source selected from the plurality of sources according to one or more download metrics, wherein a first set of one or more pieces of the digital content item are downloaded from the service-controlled portion and a second set of one or more pieces of the digital content item are downloaded from a peer computer of the peer-to-peer network via a computer network, the first set being different from the second set; and computer-reading the first set of one or more pieces and the second set of one or more pieces from the user-controlled portion while presenting the digital content item.