Patent ID: 7613735

Claim:
A system for storing media content within a service provider network, comprising: a plurality of multi-service servers associated with access points adapted to allow end-user devices to access the service provider network, each multi-service server comprising a common storage partition adapted for storing media content, each multi-service server comprising a plurality of end-user storage partitions, each end-user storage partition adapted for storing associations to portions of the media content in the common storage partition; and a plurality of media servers, at least a portion of the media servers being disposed within the service provider network, the media servers adapted for communicating with the multi-service servers for providing media content to the multi-service servers for storage in the respective common storage partitions of the multi-service servers; wherein, in response to a request for media content received from an end-user device, the requested media content stored in the common storage partition of one of the multi-service servers having an end-user partition associated with the end-user device is associated with the end-user storage partition associated with the end-user device.