US 10,951,943 B2 · Systems and methods for storing offsets of a recorded program in a network DVR

Abstract

Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in the conventional network storage systems via novel techniques to store offsets of a recorded program in a network digital video recorder (DVR). Storing offsets of a recorded program may be beneficial to users that would like to record media content that is broadcast either prior to a start time of a program, or media content that is broadcast after an end time of a program. This feature may be useful when start times and end times of a program are variable (e.g., in the case of sporting events, or other real-time events). This feature may also be useful for recording content of interest that is scheduled for broadcast prior to a start time of or after an end time of the program.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for storing media assets, comprising:

determining to record a media asset for a first profile and for a second profile, each of the first profile and the second profile associated with a first offset and with a second offset, respectively, for the media asset;
comparing the first offset and the second offset to determine
a largest start-offset from a start time of the media asset;
and
storing media content associated with the media asset based on the largest start-offset in one or more storage devices.

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A system for storing media assets, comprising:

one or more storage devices configured to:
store media content for a plurality of media assets and offsets associated with a subset of the plurality of media assets;
control circuitry configured to:
determine to record a media asset for a first profile and for a second profile, each of the first profile and the second profile associated with a first offset and with a second offset, respectively, for the media asset;
compare the first offset and the second offset to determine a largest start-offset from a start time of the media asset;
and
store media content associated with the media asset based on the largest start-offset in the one or more storage devices.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/472,189Filed 21 Dec 2016

Published

US 2020/0092601 A119 Mar 2020

Granted

16 Mar 2021

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

H04N 21/4334
Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations: recording operations
H04N 5/76
Details of television systems: television signal recording
H04N 5/775
Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus: between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
H04N 21/2181
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a…

Systems and methods for storing offsets of a recorded program in a network DVR

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Systems and methods for storing offsets of a recorded program in a network DVR

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