Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content
AssigneeTiVo Solutions Inc.
InventorsArthur van Hoff, James Barton
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining, at a first device, that new media content is stored at the first device;
- in response to the determining, identifying a transcoded version of the new media content in a format suitable for playback at a third device;
- transmitting the transcoded version of the new media content to a second device to cause the second device to transfer the transcoded new media content to be displayed on the third device.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause performance of:
- determining, at a first device, that new media content is stored at the first device;
- in response to the determining, identifying a transcoded version of the new media content in a format suitable for playback at a third device;
- transmitting the transcoded version of the new media content to a second device to cause the second device to transfer the transcoded new media content to be displayed on the third device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.