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Digital video recorder using circular file management and method of operation

  • US 20030044170A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2001
  • Published: 03/06/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. For use in a digital video recorder, an apparatus for performing time-shifted viewing of an incoming television program being received by said digital video recorder, the apparatus comprising:

  • a controller capable of creating a data file having a defined maximum size on a storage disk of said digital video recorder and capable of causing video data associated with said incoming television program to be stored sequentially in said data file from a first location to an Nth location, wherein said controller, in response to a determination that said video data has been stored in said Nth location, causes a next received video data to be stored in said first location.

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