System, method and article of manufacture for automatic detection and storage/archival of network video in a video-on-demand scenario

摘要

A storage controller controls a plurality of storage media devices and a network interface passively monitors network traffic and automatically detects video data in at least a portion of said network traffic, where the storage controller archives the video data in the storage media devices and processes the archived video data to serve the archived video data as video-on-demand data.