Patent ID: 8824464

Claim:
One or more physical, non-transitory computer readable storage media encoded with software comprising computer executable instructions and when the software is executed operable to: receive unsolicited content from a digital content provider including policy data comprising release data indicating that the content is to be broadcast, multicast or unicast at a particular time; store digital content provider data in non-volatile storage based on the unsolicited content on a first customer premises node in a last-mile network; determine whether conditions are satisfied to release the digital content for sending the provider digital content data to a second customer premises node in the same last-mile network, in response to determining that the conditions are satisfied for sending the provider digital content data; retrieve the provider data from the non-volatile storage, wherein the provider data is encrypted; send the provider data from the first customer premises node to the second customer premises node in the same last-mile network; and distribute a decryption key to the second customer premises node at the particular time.