Patent ID: 8010531

Claim:
A system, comprising: a video hub office that serves as a point of aggregation of media content, the video hub office comprising at least one device configured to receive a media signal from a head end through a media distribution network, and provide the media signal to a content processing device located at a customer premises, the content processing device configured to process the media signal and provide media programming included in the media signal to a media playback device for playback at the customer premises; an element server in the video hub office; and at least one computing device remote from the video hub office and the customer premises, the at least one computing device comprising: a first data store that includes a first set of data that includes a plurality of presentation elements, a second data store that includes a second set of data that includes metadata concerning the presentation elements, the metadata including at least a hash value related to each of the presentation elements and a location of each of the presentation elements in the first data store, the second set of data further including information concerning one or more associations of one or more of the presentation elements in the first set of data with a chunk that is a logical grouping of the one or more of the presentation elements, and an element management subsystem that provides the one or more of the presentation elements associated with the chunk to the element server in the video hub office by way of a packet network, the element server configured to cache the one or more of the presentation elements for use by the element server in fulfilling a request provided by the content processing device to the element server; wherein the at least one computing device remote from the video hub office and the customer premises provides a user interface that presents a screen displaying a description of the one or more of the presentation elements associated with the chunk.