Limiting recording demands
AssigneeComcast Cable Holdings, LLC
InventorsDerek T. Harrar, Roger J. Godin, Robin L. Opie, Robert Gaydos
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Abstract
A method and system of limiting recording demands on digital video recorders and other media records. The limiting being facilitated through analysis of programs and other media available from one or more network resources associated with and/or having capabilities to provide media to the recording element. The network resources may be associated with provider resources, customer resources, and/or any other resource in communication with the recording element.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method, comprising:
- responsive to a determination that video content is to become unavailable from a device on which the video content is stored:
- communicating, from a source different from the device and to a plurality of other devices, the video content;
- and
- scheduling one or more devices of the plurality of other devices to record the video content.
A method, comprising:
- responsive to a determination that video content is to become unavailable from a device on which the video content is stored:
- multicasting, from a source different from the device and to a plurality of other devices, the video content;
- and
- instructing one or more devices of the plurality of other devices to record the video content from the source.
A method, comprising responsive to a determination that video content is to become unavailable from a device on which the video content is stored, multicasting, from a source different from the device and to a plurality of other devices, the video content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.