Method and system for ordering and prioritizing the downloading of content from an interactive interface
AssigneeThe DIRECTV Group, Inc.
InventorAlistair E Jeffs
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Abstract
A method and system for ordering content includes a first device having an ordering interactive interface. The first device identifies a user account. The first device forms a content selection corresponding to the on-demand content from the interactive interface and generates a recording priority status. The first device communicates the content selection and the recording priority status to a content processing system. The content processing system forms a queue for the user account, inserts the content selection in the queue in response to the recording priority and communicates a control word to the user device. A user device receives the content corresponding to the selection in response to the control word.
Claims22
A method of ordering content comprising:
- using a first device, accessing an ordering interactive interface that has content available from a content processing system;
- identifying a user account;
- forming a queue for the user account at the content processing system;
- using the first device, selecting a content selection from the interactive interface;
- selecting a recording priority status for the content selection from the interactive interface;
- communicating a recording priority status and the selection to the content processing system;
- updating the queue in response to the recording priority status by inserting the selection at a top or bottom of the queue;
- communicating a control word from the content processing system to a user device different than the first device;
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- receiving content corresponding to the selection from the content processing system at the user device in response to the control word.
A system comprising:
- a first device displaying an ordering interactive interface, said first device identifying a user account, said first device forming a content selection corresponding to content available from a content processing system from the interactive interface and selecting a recording priority status, said first device communicating the content selection and the recording priority status to the content processing system;
- said content processing system forming a queue for a user account, inserting the content selection at a top or bottom of the queue in response to the recording priority and communicating a control word to the user device;
- and said user device receiving the content corresponding to the selection in response to the control word.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.