Patent ID: 7610604

Claim:
An intelligent MPEG media storage, execution, and presentation system, comprising: a distributed resource manager that discovers available storage area network targets based on a storage area network notification mechanism by observing device registration and deregistration events for the storage area network targets, said resource manager managing placement of MPEG media data using feature parameters that are dynamically extracted from the media data to provide content addressable media placement and positioning information; a plurality of distributed recorder units that handle concurrent recording sessions by using a storage area network initiator to store data on the storage area network targets, said recorder units receiving the information from said resource manager and recording the media data to the storage area network targets in accordance with the information; a plurality of playback units that handle concurrent playback operations by looking up the information in the resource manager and by fetching the media data from a storage area network initiator interface and sending the media data through an RTP interface, wherein said resource manager instructs said playback unit from where to start reading and to where to send RTP packets; and said resource manager models a storage area network disk partition by using a content addressable MPEG descriptor that provides information needed to locate a block of storage based on contents of the block of storage.