Remote Access to Personal Video Profile
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
InventorsSamuel Schwartz, Bruce Hertzfeld, Eric Budin
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Abstract
A system for providing a user-specific list of programs for online viewing based on a user profile stored in a DVR of a user, said system comprising: (a) a preference server linked to a wide area network and in communication with said DVR and at least one content server having a library of programs available for online delivery to a remote device; and (b) a User Menu hosted by said preference server and particular to said user, said User Menu providing said user-specific list of programs based on said user profile stored in said DVR.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- causing a content server to download a first portion of a content item to a first computing device;
- updating a user profile to indicate output of the first portion of the content item;
- and
- based on information indicating that a user of the first computing device is associated with a second computing device, and based on the updated user profile, causing a second portion of the content item to be downloaded to the second computing device for output via the second computing device.
A computing device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
- cause a content server to download a first portion of a content item to a first computing device;
- update a user profile to indicate output of the first portion of the content item;
- and
- based on information indicating that a user of the first computing device is associated with a second computing device, and based on the updated user profile, cause a second portion of the content item to be downloaded to the second computing device for output via the second computing device.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause:
- causing a content server to download a first portion of a content item to a first computing device;
- updating a user profile to indicate output of the first portion of the content item;
- and
- based on information indicating that a user of the first computing device is associated with a second computing device, and based on the updated user profile, causing a second portion of the content item to be downloaded to the second computing device for output via the second computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.