US 2010/0074600 A1 · NETWORKED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM

Abstract

A networked personal video recording (“PVR”) system couples a plurality of clients to one or more PVR media servers over a network. One or more PVR media servers include television tuners to tune television signals. A storage medium buffers the television signals to implement PVR functionality. For example, the PVR media server records television programs for clients. Clients are assigned to television tuners, and the clients display television programs received at the assigned tuner. The network transfers the buffered television signals to the clients.

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Dependent claims

A method for networking a plurality of television recording devices, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of television signals;
tuning each of said television signals in one of a plurality of tuners;
buffering said television signals on a storage medium in at least one PVR media server;
coupling a plurality of clients, over a network, to said PVR media server;
assigning at least two of said clients to one or more of said tuners;
and
transferring, over said network, buffered television signals to said clients.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/569,347Filed 29 Sep 2009

Priority

2 Jul 2003

Published

25 Mar 2010

Term ends

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Classification13 codes

H04N 21/4583
Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating…:…
H04N 5/782
Using magnetic recording: on tape
H04N 7/17336
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: handling of requests in head-ends
H04N 21/274
Server based end-user applications: storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder

Networked personal video recording system

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Networked personal video recording system

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Abstract

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