Patent ID: 8572666

Claim:
A system for providing content providers with network distribution nodes for distributing content to subscribers of a communications service provider, said system comprising: a plurality of network nodes maintained by the communications service provider and in communication with the public Internet, said network nodes configured to maintain a plurality of storefronts for a plurality of content providers, said network nodes configured to receive content from a content provider over the public Internet, store the content in a content store of the content provider, and enable subscribers of a communications service provider to access and download the content from the content store without the content having to be communicated over the public Internet from the plurality of network nodes to the subscribers; a plurality of remote content management applications configured to be executed on each of the respective network nodes and enable a plurality of respective content providers to maintain control over stored content in their respective content store at the network nodes for subscribers local to each respective network node to download the content, the plurality of remote content management applications further configured to enable the content provider to set a quality of service level for distributing content in their respective content store, control whether a fee is charged to the subscribers for retrieving the content, control whether advertising is displayed with a retrieved content, and assign available channels for distributing the content received from the content provider; and a plurality of customer databases operated by respective remote content management applications, said customer databases configured to store information associated with subscribers of the communications service provider, said remote content management applications providing limited access to the information stored in the customer database to prevent the respective content provider from accessing personal information of the subscribers.