# US 2014/0208369 A1 · Apparatus and system for personal display of cable and satellite content > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0208369 A1 - Document ID: US20140208369A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/861,310 - Filed: 2013-04-11 - Published: 2014-07-24 - Earliest claimed: 2013-01-19 - Inventors: Steve Holmgren - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140208369A1 ## CPC - H04N 21/4113: {PC} - H04N 21/4126: {The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones} - H04N 21/4334: {Recording operations (recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27)} - H04N 21/440218: {by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 (conversion of standards in analogue television systems H04N7/01)} - H04N 21/462: Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities - H04N 21/6143: {involving transmission via a satellite} - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A set top terminal is configured to be accessible to a content management tool over a local network. The set top terminal includes means for delivering remote content from a cable or satellite content provider to a television screen in a form that is readily viewable on the television screen and means for storing the remote content for delayed viewing. The set top terminal also includes means for transcoding the remote content to a form that the content management tool is configured to utilize, where the form that the content management tool is configured to utilize is different than the form that is readily viewable on the television screen. The set top terminal can be part of a network including a personal display device and a content management tool. The content management tool may be embedded within the personal display device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An assembly, consisting essentially of: a television set configured to display viewable content that is stored in a first format; a personal display device configured to display the viewable content after it is compressed into a second format, the personal display device having a computer-based content management tool embedded within; and a set top terminal locally tethered to the television set, the set top terminal being accessible to the computer-based content management tool over a network, the set top terminal configured to store the viewable content in the first format for delayed use; wherein the computer-based content management tool is configured to issue content requests directly to the set top terminal, the set top terminal comprises means for implementing remote content source management for responding to the content requests and a means for compressing the viewable content from the first format into the second format, and the personal display device is configured to download the viewable content directly from the set top terminal over the network after the viewable content is compressed into the second format. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the network is a local area network. ### Claim 3 (canceled) ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the set top terminal is configured to implement at least one of MPEG-4 video compression, H.264 video compression, MP3 audio compression, and AAC-LC audio compression. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the set top terminal is configured to implement XML or RSS 2.0 as a content syndication vehicle. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the set top terminal is configured to provide for content transcoding specific to the personal display device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The assembly of claim 6, wherein the personal display device is a phone or a table computer. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the set top terminal is configured to parameterize device transcoding with RESTful URL encoding. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the set top terminal is configured to automatically publish recorded content for browsing and syndication by the personal display device using RSS 2.0 syndication. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, wherein the personal display device and the computer-based content management tool are provided as a single electronic device. ### Claim 11 An assembly, consisting essentially of: a personal device; a content management tool embedded within the personal device; a television set; and a set top terminal locally tethered to the television set, the set top terminal being accessible to the content management tool over a network, the set top terminal configured to store audible or viewable content in a first format for delayed use; wherein the content management tool is configured to allow the personal device to issue content requests directly to the set top terminal, the set top terminal comprises one or more modules configured to implement remote content source management for responding to the content requests and compression of the audible or viewable content to a second format, and the content management tool is configured to allow the personal display device to download the audible or viewable content directly from the set top terminal over the network after the audible or viewable content is compressed into the second format. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The assembly of claim 11, wherein the audible or viewable content is stored on the set top terminal in the first format, and the personal display device is configured to utilize content of the second format, the second format being different from the first format. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The assembly of claim 12, wherein the second format is of lower resolution or smaller physical memory size than the first format. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The assembly of claim 13, wherein at least one of the one or more modules is configured to compress the audible or viewable content from the first format to the second format. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The assembly of claim 11, wherein the set top terminal is configured to issue a reply directly to the content management tool in response to the content request. ### Claim 16 (canceled) ### Claim 17 (canceled) ### Claim 18 A method of delivering content from a content server directly to a personal device, the method comprising: entering a URL into a local content management tool which is embedded within the personal device, the URL referencing an RSS file available on the content server; adding device specific characteristics of the personal device to the URL and downloading the RSS file; having the content management tool request the content; having the content server transcode the content according to the device specific characteristics added to the URL; and downloading the transcoded content from the content server directly to the personal device. ### Claim 19 (canceled) ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein the adding of the device specific characteristics is performed by the local content management tool. ### Claim 21 (canceled) ### Claim 22 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein adding device specific characteristics of the personal device to the URL comprises including Representation State Transfer (RESTFul) within the URL. ### Claim 23 (depends on 11) The assembly of claim 11, wherein the content management tool is configured to be interfaced directly with a local user. ### Claim 24 (depends on 1) The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a server which is internal to the set top terminal, the server being configured to perform the compressing of the viewable content from the first format into the second format.