Patent ID: 8370385

Claim:
A media collections (MC) service system for resolving an identifier tuple assigned to a content item into a set of one or more Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) which point to an instance of the content item, said system comprising: a back-end server which acts as a master repository for a MC service configuration and a MC database, wherein the MC service configuration sets up an instance of a MC service on a front-end server, and wherein the MC database comprises a listing of identifier tuples each of which is assigned to a content item and each of which is associated with a set of one or more URIs that point to locations where an instance of the identified content item can be obtained; multiple front end servers which interface with the back-end server and which each comprise an instance of the MC service set-up by the back-end server and which have access to a copy of the MC database as provided by the back-end server, and wherein each front-end server receives queries from a subscriber comprising an identifier tuple and uses the resident instance of the MC service and the MC database to provide one or more URIs associated with the received identifier tuple to the subscriber.