US 2016/0255397 A1Published application

Contextually aware management of resources

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsThomas A. Langan, Dan E. Walther, Ying Hao, Joseph Chauvin, Shailendra Mishra, Nitin Rathee, Ashley C. Speicher, Cory J. Healey, Nicholas J. Fang

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Abstract

Technologies are described herein for providing contextually aware management of resources. Recorded content items are deleted from or added to a storage device depending on the availability of alternate resources sharing the content items and/or other contextual information. For example, if a storage device of a DVR has reached a threshold with respect to a storage capacity and/or other conditions develop, configurations disclosed herein analyze the content items stored in the DVR to determine if the content items are provided by an on-demand resource. If one or more stored content items are available on at least one on-demand resource, the system may delete the one or more content items from the DVR and generate a link to access the one or more content items from the on-demand resource. The link and a description of the one or more content items may then be added to the cross-platform programming playlist.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer, comprising:

a processor;
and
a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the processor, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the processor, cause the computer to
receive contextual data defining user activity, a consumption preference, a status of a device or an account status;
determine when stored video data is to be deleted from or added to a digital video recorder based, at least in part, on the contextual data;
when it is determined that the stored video data is to be added to the digital video recorder,
select at least one content item from a playlist,
cause a recording of video data associated with the at least one content item, and
obtain a link providing access to the recorded video data associated with the at least one content item;
and
when it is determined that the stored video data is to be deleted from the digital video recorder,
determine when an on-demand resource shares a content item associated with the stored video data,
cause the digital video recorder to delete at least a portion of the stored video data of the content item when it is determined that the on-demand resource shares the content item associated with the stored video data, and
obtain a link for accessing streaming video data of the content item from the on-demand resource.

11 more elements

A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving contextual data defining user activity, a consumption preference, a status of a device or an account status;
determining when stored video data is to be deleted from a digital video recorder based, at least in part, on the contextual data;
when it is determined that the stored video data is to be deleted from the digital video recorder,
determining when an on-demand resource shares one or more content items associated with the stored video data, and
when it is determined that the on-demand resource shares the one or more content items associated with the stored video data,
causing a selection of an individual content item from the one or more content items,
causing the digital video recorder to delete at least a portion of the stored video data associated with the individual content item, and
obtaining a link for accessing streaming video data associated with the individual content item from the on-demand resource.

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A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive contextual data defining user activity, a consumption preference, a status of a device or an account status;
determine when stored video data is to be deleted from a storage device based, at least in part, on the contextual data;
when it is determined that the stored video data is to be deleted from the storage device,
determine when an on-demand resource shares one or more content items associated with the stored video data, and
cause a selection of an individual content item from the one or more content items, when it is determined that the on-demand resource shares the one or more content items associated with the stored video data,
cause the storage device to delete at least a portion of the stored video data associated with the individual content item, when it is determined that the on-demand resource shares the one or more content items associated with the stored video data, and
obtain a link for accessing streaming video data associated with the individual content item from the on-demand resource, when it is determined that the on-demand resource shares the one or more content items associated with the stored video data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/634,666Filed 27 Feb 2015
Published: 1 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04N 21/4335
Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations: housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing…
H04N 5/765
Television signal recording: interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
H04N 5/85
Using optical recording: on discs or drums
H04N 7/17318
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests