Patent ID: 9280548
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, by a media processing system, a media file to be retrieved from storage for transcoding by the media processing system; transmitting a request, to an asset manager device, for information identifying a location of the media file; identifying, by the asset manager device, the location of the media file; forwarding, to the media processing system, information identifying the location; transmitting, to a storage manager device, a request for the media file; receiving, by the storage manager device, the request for the media file; creating, by the storage manager device, a copy of the media file; storing, by the storage manager device, a first virtual location corresponding to a location of the copy of the media file; forwarding, by the storage manager device and to the media processing system, a message indicating that the identified media file is available for processing; forwarding, by the storage manager device, the copy of the media file to the media processing system; transcoding the media file from a first format into at least one other format; at least two of: monitoring, by the storage manager device, the copy of the media file in a working storage portion of memory; and automatically deleting the copy, in response to determining that the copy has not been accessed in a predetermined period of time.