Patent ID: 7565415

Claim:
A method comprising: responsive to a determination that information specified to be comprised by media information is missing from a first copy of media information received by a gateway proxy device from a media server and responsive to missing information received via a request for a second copy of the media information, providing a third copy of the media information to a user device, the third copy of the media information formed via storage of the missing information in a storage device not directly connected to the media server, the first copy of the media information streamed from the media server to the gateway proxy device, the first copy of the media information automatically requested responsive to a user request for the media information, the first copy of the media information associated with a first bandwidth, the gateway proxy device adapted to transmit the first copy of the media information responsive to the user request, the gateway proxy device adapted to automatically request the second copy of the media information from the media server, the automatic request responsive to a meta tag that identifies other versions of the media information that are present on the media server, the second copy of the media information being a second version of the media information associated with a second bandwidth.