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US 2008/0075424 A1Published application
Methods for a digital video recorder to use other storage, program and tuner resources
OwnerTod A. DeBieinventor
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Abstract
A method of enabling a digital video recorder to use the tuner resources of other digital video recorders, comprising checking for other available digital video recorders; and determining if said other available digital video recorders have an available tuner at the desired time.
Claims13
A method of enabling a digital video recorder to use the tuner resources of other digital video recorders, comprising:
- checking for other available digital video recorders;
- and
- determining if the other available digital video recorders have an available tuner at the desired time.
A method of enabling a digital video recorder to use other storage devices, comprising:
- checking for other available storage devices;
- and
- determining if the other storage devices have available storage space.
A method of enabling a digital video recorder to discover and playback programs stored on other devices, comprising:
- checking for other available devices with stored programs;
- and
- enumerating programs stored on said other devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.