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US 10,951,727 B2Granted
Remote access of media items
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsDavid Heller, Thomas C. Mavrakakis
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Abstract
Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. Media item content data associate with a first subset of the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. In this manner, only media item metadata associate with a second subset of the plurality of media items is stored on the first network device.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- obtaining, at a client device from a first network device, metadata associated with a plurality of episodic media items of a media item library, wherein the plurality of episodic media items are available to the first network device;
- receiving a selection of a first episodic media item from the plurality of episodic media items;
- playing the first episodic media item in response to the selection;
- determining a content storage policy that applies to a media type of the first episodic media item, wherein the content storage policy indicates a playback order based on the media type, and wherein the content storage policy governs fetching and storage of media items of the media type;
- determining, during the playing of the first episodic media item, that the second episodic media item is not locally available to the client device;
- sending, by the client device to the first network device, a request corresponding to the second episodic media item, wherein the request corresponding to the second episodic media item causes the second episodic media item to be identified based on the content storage policy,
- receiving, responsive to the request, content corresponding to the second episodic media item at the client device;
- and
- storing the content on the client device based on the content storage policy.
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An electronic device, comprising:
- a memory;
- a display;
- a user interface;
- and
- one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute instructions causing the one or more processors to:
- obtain, at a client device from a first network device, metadata associated with a plurality of episodic media items of a media item library, wherein the plurality of episodic media items are available to the first network device;
- receiving a selection of a first episodic media item from the plurality of episodic media items;
- play the first episodic media item in response to the selection;
- determine a content storage policy that applies to a media type of the first episodic media item, wherein the content storage policy indicates a playback order based on the media type, and wherein the content storage policy governs fetching and storage of media items of the media type;
- determine, during the playing of the first episodic media item, that the second episodic media item is not locally available to the client device;
- send, by the client device to the first network device, a request corresponding to the second episodic media item,
- wherein the request corresponding to the second episodic media item causes the second episodic media item to be identified based on the content storage policy;
- receive, responsive to the request, content corresponding to the second episodic media item at the client device;
- and
- store the content on the client device based on the content storage policy.
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A non-transitory program storage device comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processors to:
- obtain, at a client device from a first network device, metadata associated with a plurality of episodic media items of a media item library, wherein the plurality of episodic media items are available to the first network device;
- receive a selection of a first episodic media item from the plurality of episodic media items;
- play the first episodic media item in response to the selection;
- determine a content storage policy that applies to a media type of the first episodic media item, wherein the content storage policy indicates a playback order based on the media type, and wherein the content storage policy governs fetching and storage of media items of the media type;
- determine, during the playing of the first episodic media item, that the second episodic media item is not locally available to the client device;
- send, by the client device to the first network device, a request corresponding to the second episodic media item,
- wherein the request corresponding to the second episodic media item causes the second episodic media item to be identified based on the content storage policy;
- receive, responsive to the request, content corresponding to the second episodic media item at the client device;
- and
- store the content on the client device based on the content storage policy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.