SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING THE DELIVERY OF STREAMED CONTENT

摘要

Server systems (10) have distributed file systems (26) that provides services for loading, staging, distributing and delivering streamed media content. The file system may be remotely accessible through a web browser, or other client (10) application. The file system described herein can allow a customer (12) of the hosting server to access and control the web site files (17) from a remote location, and manipulate and manage the files stored on the host site (15), to configure the site as desired. To this end, the distributed file system (26) provides a process for allowing a user to upload streaming media content from a client site (12) to the host (15), or to another location accessible by the file system (26). A staging process allows the user to set or adjust meta-data characteristics of the uploaded media asset, and a distribution process is capable of replicating the media asset and distributing the replicated versions of that asset across the data network.