Patent ID: 7986686

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, over a network connection at a customer premises node located on premises of a first customer, provider digital content data from a network service provider different from the first customer, wherein the network service provider provides for a first customer access to a network of the network service provider through the network connection, wherein the provider digital content data includes release data, the release data indicating that the provider digital content data should be broadcast, multicast or unicast at a particular time; storing provider data based on the provider digital content data in non-volatile storage on the customer premises node of the first customer, wherein the customer premises node did not solicit the network service provider to send the provider data, and wherein the customer premises node is not authorized to delete the provider data unless it receives a message from the network service provider; determining whether conditions are satisfied to release the provider digital content data for sending the provider digital content data to a second customer different from the first customer; and in response to determining that the conditions are satisfied for sending the provider digital content data: retrieving the provider data from the non-volatile storage on the customer premises node of the first customer, wherein the provider data is encrypted to protect against unauthorized distribution to a plurality of customers before a particular time; sending the provider digital content data based on the provider data over the network connection for receipt by the second customer; and distributing a decryption key to the second customer at the particular time.