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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Sameer Gavade, Irving, TX (US);
Sanjay Ahuja, Irving, TX (US);
Venkata S. Adimatyam, Irving, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device may provide information identifying one or more items of content stored by a home media client. The device may receive a request for content, of the one or more items of content, stored by the home media client. The home media client may store a first copy of the content. The device may identify a second copy of the content based on the request for the content. The second copy of the content may be stored by a storage device of a content delivery network or may be stored by the home media client without being stored by the storage device of the content delivery network. The device may cause the second copy of the content to be provided via the content delivery network as a response to the request regardless of whether the second copy of the content is stored by the storage device of the content delivery network or by the home media client.