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US 9,298,827 B2Granted
Media recorder
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsCurtis Wayne Spencer, Avichal Garg, Daniel Jonathan Witte, Christine J. Tieu, Chandra Prakash Patni, Aditya Brij Koolwal
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Abstract
Systems and methods enabling the recording of a wide variety of online media for storage and later consumption are disclosed. The media can include audio, video, images, text and multi-media. The stored recordings can be played on internet-enabled devise such as televisions, mobile phones, personal computers, tablets, game systems, or the like. Recording is optionally accomplished using distributed recorders each making use of a virtualized browser.
Claims23
A system comprising:
- an API server configured to receive requests to record media retrieved from websites, the requests being received from remote clients of the API server;
- a plurality of recorders each configured to record a received request to record media retrieved from websites that includes a specified type of media using a virtualized browser environment disposed on the respective recorder;
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- a recording queue manager configured to:
- determine whether a first recorder of the plurality of recorders is available to process the received request to record media retrieved from websites,
- responsive to a determination that the first recorder is unavailable to process the received request to record media retrieved from websites, determine a request type of the received request, the request type of the received request associated with a type of content associated with the request, and
- assign requests to record media retrieved from websites to a second recorder, the second recorder configured to process requests to record media retrieved from websites having a type that matches the determined type of the received request.
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A method of recording media, the method comprising:
- receiving at a server a request to record media from a webpage, the request including an address of the webpage;
- placing the received request to record media from the webpage in a queue of recording requests;
- assigning the received request to record media from the webpage to a recorder geographically remote from the server;
- using the recorder to load the webpage into a virtualized browser environment;
- parsing the loaded webpage to identify recordable objects within the webpage;
- generating a first recording request for a first of the recordable objects, the first of the recordable objects including a text article disposed across multiple webpages;
- generating a second recording request for a second of the recordable objects, the second of the recordable objects including a video;
- assigning the first recording request to a text recorder;
- assigning the second recording request to a video recorder;
- saving an output of the text recorder generated in response to the first recording request;
- and saving an output of the video recorder generated in response to the second recording request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.