Patent ID: 7971223

Claim:
A computerized method for storage management of multimedia content in data storage of a video distribution server allocated to individual subscribers, the method comprising: receiving, by a queue management server, a queue message to queue location information for multimedia content selected or subscribed to at a remote content server, the location information identifying a storage location remote from the data storage of the video distribution server; storing, by the queue management server, the location information in a queue corresponding to a subscriber of the video distribution server; receiving, by the queue management server, a request message from the video distribution server when space is available in the data storage allocated to the subscriber, the request message requesting the location information for the multimedia content next in the queue corresponding to the subscriber; and transmitting, by the queue management server, a retrieval message providing the requested location information to the video distribution server, the retrieval message causing the video distribution server to retrieve the multimedia content from the remote storage location and to store the retrieved multimedia content in the data storage allocated to the subscriber.