Patent ID: 8924510

Claim:
A digital content management system comprising: a managed datacenter having a managed digital content catalog containing metadata relating to digital content which may be acquired by a digital subscriber, said managed datacenter having access to a digital subscriber attribute database containing personalized information on digital subscribers, said managed digital content catalog and said digital subscriber attribute database respectively being stored on digital storage media and being accessed by respective managed catalog web services and context web services provided through said managed datacenter; at least one content delivery network (CDN) remote from said managed datacenter on which is stored a cached digital content catalog that corresponds to said managed digital content catalog and is updated by said managed datacenter, said CDN including catalog web services for processing requests for metadata from said cached digital content catalog; an access device located remote from but having respective web-based connections with each said CDN and said managed datacenter, said access device having a digital content storefront application which is usable by a digital subscriber to perform a personalized contextual search of digital content, said access device requesting and receiving digital content catalog metadata from said cached digital content catalog through said catalog web services of said CDN, and requesting and receiving contextual metadata about said digital subscriber from said digital subscriber attribute database through said context web services of said managed datacenter; said access device merging said contextual metadata and said digital content catalog metadata to define content catalog search results which are provided to said digital subscriber through said access device.