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US 2012/0070131 A1Published application
Dsl video service with memory manager
OwnerBruce E. Stuckmaninventor
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Abstract
A digital video recorder (DVR) has a memory manager to determine a particular date and a particular video program in a download schedule for which the DVR will reach a low memory condition based on the download schedule and an amount of unoccupied memory space in the DVR. The DVR outputs a display signal to indicate the particular date and the particular video program.
Claims17
A computer readable medium, containing computer instructions executable by a computer, the computer program comprising:
- instructions to determine a particular video program in a download schedule for which a digital video recorder (DVR) will reach a low memory condition based on the download schedule and an amount of unoccupied memory space in the DVR based on download parameters comprising a start time indicating when the down load is to begin, a completion time indicating when the download is to end, a bandwidth parameter indicating an amount of bandwidth that should be dedicated to the download, a quality parameter indicating a viewing quality for the download, and a real time parameter indicating whether the download is for viewing in real time;
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- instructions to indicate the particular video program.
An apparatus comprising:
- a digital video recorder (DVR) having a memory manager to determine a particular date for which the DVR will reach a low memory condition based on a download schedule and an amount of unoccupied memory space in the DVR based on download parameters comprising a start time indicating when the down load is to begin, a completion time indicating when the download is to end, a bandwidth parameter indicating an amount of bandwidth that should be dedicated to the download, a quality parameter indicating a viewing quality for the download, and a real time parameter indicating whether the download is for viewing in real time;
- the DVR to output a display signal to indicate the particular date.
An apparatus comprising:
- a digital video recorder (DVR) having a memory manager to determine a particular video program in a download schedule for which the DVR will reach a low memory condition based on the download schedule and an amount of unoccupied memory space in the DVR based on download parameters comprising a start time indicating when the down load is to begin, a completion time indicating when the download is to end, a bandwidth parameter indicating an amount of bandwidth that should be dedicated to the download, a quality parameter indicating a viewing quality for the download, and a real time parameter indicating whether the download is for viewing in real time, the DVR to output a display signal to indicate the particular video program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.