Patent ID: 8613011

Claim:
A services gateway comprising: a memory to store instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor performs operations comprising: sending a first request to a video-on-demand server for a content catalog, wherein the content catalog comprises prepositioned content determined from a popularity of video-on-demand content, a user profile, or viewing habits; in response to the first request presenting the prepositioned content of the content catalog; sending a second request for video-on-demand content provided in the prepositioned content of the content catalog; in response to the second request receiving content data from the video-on-demand content server, wherein the content data comprises the video-on-demand content, wherein the video-on-demand content is protected with a first digital rights management scheme that comprises rules for presenting the video-on-demand content; processing the content data to retrieve the video-on-demand content; removing the first digital right management scheme from the video-on-demand content; encoding the video-on-demand content in a content stream, the content stream protected with a second digital rights management scheme that includes rules conforming to the rules of the first digital rights management scheme, wherein the first digital rights management scheme is formatted differently from the second digital rights management scheme; and providing the content stream over a local area network to a playback device.