Patent ID: 9330241
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a centralized digital video storage (DVS) system that supports a plurality of subscriber units, the method comprises: receiving a request for playback of a stored multi-media file of a plurality of stored multi-media files from a subscriber unit of the plurality of subscriber units, wherein the centralized DVS system stores the plurality of stored multi-media files as a plurality of dispersed storage error encoded data objects, wherein one of the plurality of dispersed storage error encoded data objects corresponding to the stored multi-media file includes a plurality of sets of encoded data slices, and wherein each of the plurality of subscriber units is assigned a unique slice retrieval pattern; determining whether the stored multi-media file is a subscription based file or a publically available file; when the stored multi-media file is the subscription based file, accessing digital rights management data regarding subscription based multi-media files to determine the subscriber unit's digital rights to the stored multi-media file; and when the subscriber unit's digital rights include playback of the multi-media file, sending a unique copy of the stored multi-media file to the subscriber unit in accordance with the unique slice retrieval pattern of the subscriber unit, wherein the unique slice retrieval pattern of the subscriber unit indicates a unique pattern for identifying a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices.