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US 11,527,263 B2Granted
Media recording element
AssigneeTiVo Inc.
InventorRichard Kirsche
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Abstract
A media recording element having capabilities to facilitate recording media for subsequent playback. The recording element further including features associated with limited operations of a hard drive of other similarly mechanical memory under certain operating conditions so as to limit power consumption and/or memory degradation.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- partitioning non-mechanical memory such that the non-mechanical memory comprises a first partition and a second partition, wherein the first partition is dedicated to storing content for a first amount of time and wherein the second partition is dedicated to storing content for a second amount of time different from the first amount of time;
- receiving a request associated with a media content item, wherein the request corresponds to an instruction to store the media content item;
- selecting one of the first partition or second partition based on the amount of time for which the media content item is to be stored;
- and
- recording the media content item to the selected partition based on the amount of time for which the media content item is to be stored.
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A system comprising:
- processing circuitry comprised of mechanical memory and non-mechanical memory;
- and
- control circuitry, configured to:
- partition non-mechanical memory such that the non-mechanical memory comprises a first partition and a second partition, wherein the first partition is dedicated to storing content for a first amount of time and wherein the second partition is dedicated to storing content for a second amount of time different from the first amount;
- receive a request associated with a media content item, wherein the request corresponds to an instruction to store the media content item;
- select one of the first partition or second partition based on the amount of time for which the media content item is to be stored;
- and
- record the media content item to the selected partition based on the amount of time for which the media content item is to be stored.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.