Patent ID: 8625455

Claim:
A system for handling streaming media on customer premises, said system comprising: a plurality of compute engines located at said customer premises and having a network interface device port and a customer premises equipment port, wherein said plurality of compute engines are configured for installation between a network interface device and one of a plurality of video destination customer premises equipment; a first processing module of a first of the plurality of compute engines configured for: receiving a first incoming packet stream: processing the first incoming packet stream to generate stream data of the first incoming packet stream; and forwarding the stream data of the first incoming packet stream through the network interface device port to a remote location within a service provider's network; and a second processing module of a second of the plurality of compute engines configured for: receiving a second incoming packet stream; processing the second incoming packet stream to generate stream data of the second incoming packet stream; forwarding the second incoming packet stream through the customer premises equipment port; and transmitting the stream data of the second incoming packet stream through the network interface device port to the remote location.