Patent ID: 8799366

Claim:
A method for communicating information in a distributed network, the method comprising: detecting newly available new media that has been stored in a storage device of the distributed media network; based on detecting the new media, selecting said new media for migration; migrating said to at least a first media processing system within the distributed media network as migrated media; storing said migrated at said at least a first media processing system as stored media; determining to process said stored media; and based on the determination to process said stored media, automatically and without user intervention: maintaining the stored media in the first media processing system; accessing one or more rules for scheduling the presentation of the media in a channel view; determining, based on the rules, a time to place the stored media in the channel view; and pushing said stored media to the channel view of at least one user; wherein when it is determined to not process the stored media by the first media processing system, the stored media is transmitted to an archiving storage device for archival storage of the stored media without pushing the stored media to the channel view.