Patent ID: 9143818
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: at a host server, receiving a registration request to register media content for access by one or more remote users, and receiving media access criteria specifying access rights for the one or more remote users, wherein the media content and the media access criteria are received from a subscriber, and a storage location of the media content is determined based, at least in part, on a subscription level associated with the subscriber; facilitating the registration of the media content at a subscriber's media source by, at the host server, receiving an access request for access to a share of the media content, and receiving authorization information associated with one of the one or more remote users, wherein the access request and the authorization information are received from a remote device of the one remote user; authorizing the access request based, at least in part, on the authorization information and the media access criteria associated with the one remote user; and facilitating a delivery of a user-interface to the remote device, wherein the user-interface controls access of the remote device to at least a portion of the share of media content based, at least in part, on the authorization or the subscription level associated with the one remote user; wherein generating the media content at the subscriber's media source includes: transcoding the one or more subscriber media content share selections at the subscriber's media source based, at least in part, on one or more subscription levels associated with the one or more remote users; and controlling, by the host server, the subscriber's media source to deliver the one or more subscriber media content share selections to a network storage device.