T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Charles A Hasek, Iv

Jeffrey Binder

David M Fellows

Chris Cholas

Vic Odryna

Brian Stark

A content delivery network uses blockchain to manage content. In various implementations, the content delivery network may specify access rights to content in a blockchain network and allow a content access device to access content when the blockchain network is unavailable using a local copy of the blockchain and reconciling upon reconnection. In some implementations, the content delivery network may track storage of available content in a blockchain and use the blockchain to provide different copies of requested items when the different copies can be provided faster, more efficiently, at a lower cost, and so on. In yet other implementations, the content delivery network may record changes to properties of content in a blockchain and evaluate received disputes by using the blockchain to determine whether a change to the properties of the content occurred prior to the dispute.

Content delivery systems that use blockchain to manage content

A digital content recording network controller device determines a first content of a set of content to be more likely to be requested by a user of a content access device than a second content of the set of content based on monitored behavior of the user. The device stores the first content in a first storage device of a tiered group of storage devices and stores the second content in a second storage device of the tiered group of storage devices wherein the content access device is located closer to the first storage device than the second storage device. This balances storage load with accessibility, resulting in a faster responding system that does not require as much storage.

Tiered digital content recording

A storage controller of a network controlled content recording system that uses a combination of network and local storage determines to record content for a user. The storage controller performs an evaluation to determine whether to store the content in network or local storage. The evaluation may include evaluating a set of rules and/or characteristics of the user, characteristics of the content, characteristics of a request to record the content, and so on. The storage controller then arranges for the content to be recorded accordingly. Subsequently, the storage controller may reevaluate storage locations and direct transfer accordingly. This reevaluation may include determining that various characteristics related to the user, the content, and so on have changed and that transfer is appropriate due to that change.

Network controlled content recording using network and local storage

A system for location verification and enforcement receives an authorization request to access content from a content access device. The authorization request includes and/or is associated with location information obtained from a gateway device via a local area network and determined using multiple communication networks. The location information is compared to a record indicating that the content access device and the gateway device were both present at a location. When the location information matches the record, an authorization is transmitted to the content access device. The content access device may be operative to access the content upon receiving the authorization.

Location verification and enforcement for content access devices

A content access device ranks content that is available to be accessed based at least on previous user content selection behavior information compared to a current situation. The content access device generates and presents a content access (or navigation) menu that indicates content selected based on the ranking. The menu may include a primary menu element that corresponds to and presents a highest ranked of the content, a secondary menu element that corresponds to and presents still images of a secondary ranked group of the content that are all smaller than the primary menu element, and a tertiary menu element that corresponds to and presents text descriptions of a tertiary ranked group of the content that are all smaller than the still images.

Behavior-influenced content access/navigation menus

A digital video recorder apparatus, system and method for recording programming material and removing limitations of a storage medium by pulling adaptive bt rate segments from a content delivery network.

Apparatus, system, and method for ABR segment pull DVR

Disclosed herein is content delivery system that delivers content to one or more remote devices. In some cases, the content that is provided by the content delivery system is protected content. As such, prior to accessing the content, the one or more remote devices may need to register or otherwise be associated with the content delivery system. The content delivery system utilizes a first communication path to allow the one or more remote devices to register with the content delivery system and/or verify that it is authorized to access the content. The content delivery system also utilizes a second communication path to deliver the content to the authorized remote devices.

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Denver, CO, United States of America

Charles A Hasek, Iv