Hybrid video selection, delivery, and caching

One or more computing devices provided in a network that delivers media content, wherein at least one of the one or more computing devices is configured to:

• cache, at a set of queues, multiple types of video content, for delivery to one or more customer devices associated with a subscriber, in a hierarchical storage, the video content corresponding to a highest level of relative popularity in a video serving office (VSO), the video content corresponding to an intermediary level of relative popularity in a video hub office (VHO), and the video content corresponding to a lowest level of relative popularity in customer premises equipment (CPE) of the network, based on corresponding priorities;
• schedule, at a first scheduler, dequeuing of real time video content from the hierarchical storage corresponding to the subscriber based on the corresponding priorities, for providing to a second scheduler of the one or more computing devices;
• schedule, at the first scheduler, dequeuing of non-real time video content from the hierarchical storage corresponding to the subscriber based on the corresponding priorities, and for providing to the second scheduler of the one or more computing devices;
• forward, from the second scheduler, each of the dequeued video content from the first scheduler to the one or more customer devices, and other dequeued video content from another hierarchical storage corresponding to another subscriber, based on a schedule determined by the second scheduler;
• exchange a first license, with the one or more customer devices, related to the delivery of a first particular video content of the cached video content in a plurality of desired formats;
• exchange a second license, with the one or more customer devices, related to the delivery of a second particular video content of the cached video content via multiple customer devices associated with the subscriber;
• receive, from a particular customer device of the one or more customer devices, a request for switching the delivery of:
• the first particular video content from a first format to one of the desired formats, or
• the second particular video content from the particular customer device to another customer device of the one or more customer devices;
• and
• deliver, responsive to the request and based on the first or second license, the first particular video content to the particular customer device in the desired format or the second particular video content to the other customer device.

A system, comprising:

• one or more devices, including:
• a set of queues for prioritizing queuing of multiple types of video content, for delivery to one or more customer devices associated with a delivery point associated with a network for delivering the video content, in a first hierarchical storage, the video content corresponding to a highest level of relative popularity in a video serving office (VSO), the video content corresponding to an intermediary level of relative popularity in a video hub office (VHO), and the video content corresponding to a lowest level of relative popularity in customer premises equipment (CPE) of the network, corresponding to the delivery point, based on a corresponding priority associated with a respective type of the video content,
• a first scheduler to:
• schedule dequeuing of real time video content from the first hierarchical storage corresponding to the delivery point based on the relative priority, for provision to a second scheduler of the one or more devices, and
• schedule dequeuing of non-real time video content from the first hierarchical storage corresponding to the delivery point based on the relative priority, and for provision to the second scheduler, and
• the second scheduler, to forward each of the dequeued video content from the first scheduler to the one or more customer devices, and other dequeued video content from a second hierarchical storage corresponding to another delivery point, based on a schedule determined by the second scheduler.