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US 8,897,622 B2Granted
Media recording element
AssigneeComcast Cable Holdings, LLC
InventorRichard Kirsche
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Abstract
A media recording element having capabilities to facilitate recording media for subsequent playback. The recording element further including features associated with limiting operations of a hard drive or other similarly mechanical memory under certain operating conditions so as to limit power consumption and/or memory degradation.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- simultaneously causing, by a processor, storage of a first copy of media content to a mechanical memory for long-term storage related operations and a second copy of the media content to a non-mechanical memory for short-term storage related operations;
- causing deactivation of a portion of the mechanical memory corresponding to the first copy of the media content;
- and
- causing output of the second copy of the media content from the non-mechanical memory.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- balancing, by a processor, between a mechanical memory for long-term storage related operations and a non-mechanical memory for short-term storage related operations by transmitting media content to the non-mechanical memory and to the mechanical memory;
- causing simultaneous storage of the media content in the non-mechanical and mechanical memories;
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- retrieving the media content from the non-mechanical memory after deactivating a portion of the mechanical memory corresponding to the media content.
1 more element
A method, comprising:
- simultaneously causing, by a processor, storage of first media content obtained via a media content stream in a non-mechanical memory and in a mechanical memory, wherein the mechanical memory is configured for long-term storage and the non-mechanical memory is configured for short-term storage;
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- accessing the first media content from the non-mechanical memory after deactivating a portion of the mechanical memory corresponding to the first media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.