Patent ID: 8656438

Claim:
A computerized method for storage management of multimedia content, the method comprising: identifying, by a computing device, space in data storage of a video distribution server allocated to a subscriber; when space is available in the data storage allocated to the subscriber, transmitting, by the computing device, a request message to a queue management server that maintains a plurality of queues for individual subscribers of the video distribution server, each queue comprising location information for multimedia content selected or subscribed to at a remote content server by a subscriber, the request message requesting the location information for multimedia content next in the queue corresponding to the subscriber; wherein the queue comprises the location information for multimedia content having a size greater than the data storage allocated to the subscriber; receiving, by the computing device, a retrieval message providing the requested location information from the queue management server; retrieving the multimedia content from the remote content server using the location information received in the retrieval message; and storing the retrieved multimedia content in the data storage allocated to the subscriber.