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System for time shifting live streamed video-audio distributed via the internet

  • US 20010047516A1
  • Filed: 01/31/2001
  • Published: 11/29/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a global computer network having at least one node broadcasting live events over the network, a method of providing to a user desired ones of said live broadcasts shifted in time comprising the computer-implemented steps of:

  • receiving from a user a request for content of the broadcast of at least one certain future event, the request indicating date, time and network location of respective broadcasts of each requested event;

    recording at a working server, the respective broadcast of each requested event according to the date, time and network location indicated in the request, each broadcast being in the form of live streamed video-audio data over the network such that said recording records corresponding streamed video-audio data of the respective broadcast of each requested event; and

    upon user command to view a certain one of the requested events, providing the recorded streamed video-audio data corresponding to said certain one of the requested events to a digital player for user viewing therefrom, said viewing being in a manner time shifted from original broadcast of the certain one of the requested events.

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