Patent ID: 8214338

Claim:
A method of processing media received over a communications network, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing system including one or more computing devices, media via a telephonic device, the media including voice content; storing the media in a first data store with a first degree of compression as a first file of a first size; enabling a user to search a transcription of the voice content; at least partly in response to: (i) a first period of time elapsing, or (ii) determining that the media has not been accessed or has been infrequently accessed by at least one user, or (iii) the first period of time elapsing and determining that the media has not been accessed or has been infrequently accessed by at least one user; determining by the computing system whether the media is to be stored with a second degree of compression as a second file of a second size, wherein the second degree of compression is higher than the first degree of compression, and wherein the second size is smaller than the first size, and at least partly in response to the computing system determining that the media is to be stored with the second degree of compression, storing the media in a second data store as the second file of the second size, wherein the second data store is configured to primarily receive media older than a first amount of time, that is infrequently accessed or has not been accessed by at least one user within a second amount of time, or that is older than the first amount of time and is also infrequently accessed or has not been accessed by at least one user within the second amount of time.