Patent ID: 9258592
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing secure transfer of previously broadcast content comprising: receiving, at a service provider, a request from a multimedia playback device to retrieve previously broadcasted content; validating the request at the service provider by determining, based on a unique identifier assigned to the multimedia playback device and a subscription type for the multimedia playback device, that the multimedia playback device is authorized to retrieve the previously broadcasted content; determining that the requested previously broadcasted content is located on a plurality of multimedia devices; creating a pool of multimedia devices based on information regarding the plurality of multimedia devices; initiating, at the service provider, a transfer of the previously broadcasted content from one or more multimedia devices in the pool of multimedia devices to the multimedia playback device, the initiating step includes sending a message, by the service provider, to one or more multimedia devices in the pool of multimedia devices to transfer at least a portion of the requested previously broadcasted content to the multimedia playback device, the service provider performing load balancing among the one or more multimedia devices in the pool of multimedia devices to dynamically adjust transfer of portions of the requested previously broadcasted content by reassigning transfer of a sub-portion of a portion of the requested previously broadcasted content, that was assigned to a first multimedia device in the pool of multimedia devices and has not completed being transferred, from the first multimedia device to a second multimedia device in the pool of multimedia devices when bandwidth of the first multimedia device becomes low during transfer of the portion of the requested previously broadcasted content assigned to the first multimedia device, the sub-portion comprising less than the portion of the requested previously broadcasted content; and receiving, by the service provider, notification from the multimedia playback device of completion of transferal of the previously broadcasted content.