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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2000
Mauro Bonomi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jean-Georges Fritsch, Los Altos, CA (US);
Patrick James Sweeney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Randolph Osborne, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Francis Morris, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Reed Majors, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Francis Michel Degrange, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ian Locke, Mountain View, CA (US);
Johnny C. Y. Ng, San Jose, CA (US);
Yousheng Cao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Li Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nam Phu Thanh Do, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ronald D. Howe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Minerva Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A media system that centrally manages and stores media contents and also controls the delivery of media content to subscribers is disclosed. According to one aspect, an administrator can control program scheduling, rates, service packages and system configuration for a media delivery system. Additionally, the administrator may also control billing, transaction monitoring, and customer relations. According to another aspect, the media delivery system provides subscribers with centrally managed storage for paused or recorded media. Still another aspect is that the media delivery system can restrict various administrators to different modules of the media delivery system.