Patent ID: 8862733

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a server device, a media item from a user device associated with a user, the received media item being received in a first format, and wherein the received media item is to be transcoded into a plurality of formats based on a transcoding priority; determining, by the server device, the transcoding priority, to be associated with transcoding of the received media item, based on information regarding whether there is a pending transcoding job request for the user, information associated with the received media item, and information associated with the user, and wherein the information associated with the user comprises: at least two of a frequency of usage of the server device by the user, a quantity of services associated with a service provider to which the user subscribes, a recency of usage of the server device by the user, or a location from which the user transmitted the media item; and wherein determining the transcoding priority further comprises: determining the transcoding priority based on at least one of the frequency of usage, the quantity of services, the recency of usage, or the location; selecting, by the server device and based on the transcoding priority and at least one of the information associated with the received media item or the information associated with the user, the received media item, from among a plurality of media items, associated with a plurality of users, to be transcoded; transcoding, by the server device, the selected media item, from the first format, to transcoded media items in the plurality of formats, a first transcoded media item, of the transcoded media items, being in a second format, of the plurality of formats, and a second transcoded media item, of the transcoded media items, being in a third format, of the plurality of formats, where the first format, the second format, and the third format are different formats; and providing, by the server device, access to the received media item and the transcoded media items.