Networked personal video storage and delivery
AssigneeSling Media, Inc.
InventorPadmanabha R. Rao
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Abstract
A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.
Claims20
A portable device to deliver video content to at least one media player device, the portable data processing system comprising:
- a transcoder configured to receive video content and to transcode the received video content into a format that is suitable for delivery to the at least one media player over a personal wireless network;
- a data storage configured to store the transcoded video content;
- a wireless network interface configured to provide a wireless access point to the personal wireless network;
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- a processor configured to receive connection requests from the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network and to deliver the transcoded video content to the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network.
A method executable by a portable video storage device to deliver video content to a media player, the method comprising:
- receiving a digital credential from an authentication service at the portable video storage device, wherein the digital credential identifies the media player;
- storing transcoded video content in a data storage of the portable video storage device;
- providing a wireless access point to a personal wireless network by the portable video storage device;
- receiving a connection request from the media player at the portable video storage device via the personal wireless network, wherein the connection request comprises the digital credential identifying the media player;
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- if the digital credential received from the media player matches the digital credential received from the authentication service, the portable video storage device providing the transcoded video content from the portable video storage device to the media player device via the personal wireless network.
The method of claim m further comprising transcoding received video content in a format that is suitable for delivery to the media player over the personal wireless network.
The method of claim m wherein the transcoded video content is encrypted prior to storage, and further comprising decrypting the transcoded video content prior to delivering the transcoded video content to the media player.
The method of claim m further comprising the portable video storage device issuing an address on the personal wireless network to the media player device only if the media player device is authorized to receive the transcoded video content.
A portable device to deliver video streams to at least one media player device, the portable device comprising:
- a data storage configured to store video content that is transcoded in a video streaming format;
- a wireless network interface configured to provide a wireless access point to the personal wireless network;
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- a processor configured to receive connection requests from the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network, to verify that the at least one media player device is authorized to receive the transcoded video content, and, if the at least one media player device is authorized, to deliver the transcoded video content to the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.