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Facilitating placeshifting using matrix codes

  • US 10,165,321 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2017
  • Issued: 12/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing content with a target device, the method comprising:

  • optically detecting, via an optical input device of a target device, a matrix code when the matrix code is displayed on a presentation device, wherein;

    the matrix code was generated, by a content receiver that is separate from the target device, based at least in part on audiovisual content and/or data associated with the audiovisual content transmitted from a service provider to the content receiver, wherein the audiovisual content is at least partially recorded upon generation of the matrix code and stored in a storage location; and

    data encoded in the matrix code comprises program identifying information and elapsed time information with respect to the audiovisual content;

    when the target device is in a first location, decoding, by the target device, the matrix code, and storing code data corresponding to the decoded matrix code in the target device for subsequent retrieval;

    when the target device is in a second location that is remote from the first location, generating, by the target device, a request based at least in part on the stored code data to receive, at the target device, at least a portion of the audiovisual content using the data encoded in the matrix code;

    transmitting, by the target device, the request for at least the portion of the audiovisual content across a network to a first device configured to access the at least the portion of the audiovisual content recorded in the storage location, wherein the first device is local to the content receiver; and

    responsive to the request, receiving, over the network by the target device from the first device, the at least the portion of the audiovisual content from the first device.

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