Program review on alternate display devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, John J. Gontkof, III, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell
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Abstract
A system and a method of recording a branch of a program being viewed on a primary viewing device coupled to a video recorder for playback of the branch on a secondary viewing device including the steps of creating a branch point in a program responsive to receiving a signal through an interface of the video recorder; recording a branch of the program from the branch point onward in the readable storage media; and sending the recorded branch to the secondary viewing device for viewing.
Claims20
A method for recording a branch of a program being viewed on a primary viewing device coupled to a video recorder having a computer and a computer readable storage media, and for playback of the branch on a secondary viewing device comprising:
- creating, by a processor of the computer, a branch point in a program on receiving an input from a user;
- recording and storing, by a processor of the computer, a branch of the program from the branch point onward in the computer readable storage media;
- and
- sending the recorded branch to the secondary viewing device for viewing.
A system of for recording a branch of a program comprising:
- a video recorder comprising a computer and a computer readable storage media
- a secondary viewing device in communication with the video recorder for displaying a recorded branch to the user;
- first program instructions to create a branch point in a program responsive to receiving a signal through an interface of the video recorder,
- second program instructions to record the branch of the program from the branch point onward and storing the recorded branch of the program in the computer readable storage media;
- and
- third program instructions to send the recorded branch of the program to the secondary viewing device;
- wherein the first, second, and third program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.