Patent ID: 8813136
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing one or more multimedia data selections to one or more units of a multi-unit building comprising: receiving requests for said one or more multimedia data selections, said requests made by one or more occupants of said one or more units of said multi-unit building; transmitting said one or more multimedia data selections to corresponding display devices in said one or more units of said multi-unit building, said display devices being capable of displaying said one or more multimedia data selections to said one or more occupants, wherein said receiving and said transmitting are performed by a standalone data storage device which consolidates data storage of multimedia data for said one or more units of said multi-unit building, said standalone data storage device comprising a plurality of hard disk drives, wherein a video file is stored over at least two of said plurality of hard disk drives, the standalone data storage device being scalable by adding additional data storage devices so that additional storage capacity may be added to the standalone data storage device according to changing storage requirements; and storing respective multimedia data selections of the one or more multimedia selections in the standalone data storage device until all received requests for said respective multimedia data selections are satisfied by transmitting said respective multimedia data selections to corresponding display devices.