Digital file management system
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsJarrod Austin, Matthew J. Coburn, Sathyan Krishna, Daniel L. Rudolph, Karen Taxier, Mark Templeman
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Abstract
A method for managing digital content is provided. The method includes accessing the digital content and applying at least one content management rule by a set-top box to the digital content. The content management rule operative to place the digital content in one of a first storage location and a second storage location, which are associated with the set-top box. The digital content may include programs or movies and the storage locations are generally operable to store multiple programs and/or movies.
Claims18
A method for managing content, comprising:
- accessing a first digital program or movie by a set-top box;
- automatically generating, by the set-top box, a first folder on a first storage location in accordance with at least one user defined content management rule in response to accessing the remote digital program or movie;
- automatically placing, by the set-top box, the first digital program or movie in the generated first folder in accordance with the at least one user defined content management rule;
- associating a timer with the first folder, thereby creating a timer association, wherein the timer causes the recording of an additional digital program or movie at a particular time on a particular channel;
- recording the additional digital program or movie by the set-top box in accordance with the the timer;
- determining, by the set-top box, if the additional program or movie matches a previously accessed digital video program or movie, wherein a match is determined by at least part of a title or metadata of the previously accessed digital video program or movie corresponding to a title or metadata of the additional digital program or movie;
- if the additional program or movie matches the previously accessed digital program or movie, determining, by the set-top box, if the previously accessed program or movie is in a second folder;
- if the previously accessed program or movie is in the second folder, placing, by the set-top box, the additional program or movie in the second folder with the previously accessed digital program or movie in addition to placing the additional program or movie in the first folder in accordance with the at least one user defined content management rule, and subsequently changing the association of the timer from the first folder to the second folder such that only future, but not past, recordings in accordance with the timer are placed only in the second folder;
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- if the previously accessed program or movie is not in the second folder, generating, by the set-top box, a third folder on the first storage location for the additional program or movie in accordance with the at least one user defined content management rule and placing, by the set-top box, the additional program or movie and the previously accessed program or movie in the generated third folder in addition to placing the additional program or movie in the first folder, and subsequently changing the association of the timer from the first folder to the third folder such that only future, but not past, recordings in accordance with the timer are placed only in the third folder;
- if the additional program or movie does not match the previously accessed digital program or movie only placing the additional program or movie in the first folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.