System and method for a user interface to manage the recording, downloading and sharing of content from multiple sources
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorBrian David Johnson
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Abstract
A system and method for a user interface to manage the recording, downloading and sharing of content from multiple sources are described. Various embodiments allow requesting content from a service provider by a user and receiving a user interface from the service provider, where the user interface indicates the availability of the content via multiple sources, and where the multiple sources include an Internet Protocol (IP) network, a broadcast service and a peer-to-peer network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- requesting content from a service provider by a user;
- and
- receiving a user interface from the service provider, wherein the user interface to indicate the availability of the content via multiple sources, and wherein the multiple sources include an Internet Protocol (IP) network, a broadcast service and a peer-to-peer network.
A system, comprising:
- a device connected to an Internet Protocol (IP) network and a peer-to-peer network, wherein a user of the device to request content from a service provider, wherein the device to receive a user interface from the service provider, wherein the user interface to indicate the availability of the content via multiple sources, and wherein the multiple sources include the IP network, a broadcast service and the peer-to-peer network.
A machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- requesting content from a service provider by a user;
- and
- receiving a user interface from the service provider, wherein the user interface to indicate the availability of the content via multiple sources, and wherein the multiple sources include an Internet Protocol (IP) network, a broadcast service and a peer-to-peer network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.