System and a method for recording a broadcast displayed on a mobile device

• US 20060257123A1
• Filed: 05/13/2005
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gandhi, Bhavan R., Horozov, Tzvetan T., Almaula, Jay R., Vasudevan, Venugopal, Haneef, Anwar M.
• Application Number:
  US11/128,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20060257123A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/297
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/00 Arrangements specially adapted for receiving broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/85 which are mobile communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23116 involving data replication, e.g. over plural servers synchronization of replicated data G06F11/1658; error detection or correction by means of data replication G06F11/2053; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/10; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/27; replication or mirroring of data in data networks H04L67/1095
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system and a method for recording a broadcast being displayed on a mobile device. The system includes a mobile device (102), a server (104), and a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) (106). The mobile device receives and displays a broadcast. Further, the mobile device generates a first information pertaining to the broadcast and sends it to the server. The server, on receiving the first information, generates a second information, and then sends the second information to the DVR. The DVR, on receiving the second information from the server records the broadcast.

Claims

1. A system for recording a broadcast, the broadcast being transmitted by a first Broadcast Source (BS) and a second Broadcast Source (BS), the system comprising:

a mobile device for displaying the broadcast being transmitted from the first BS, the mobile device generating a first information of the broadcast;

a server receiving the first information, a first identity of the first BS, and a second identity of the second BS; and

a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) capable of recording the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS based on a second information received from the server, the second information being generated based on the first information, the first identity, and the second identity.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an Electronic Broadcast Guide (EBG) database for storing details regarding the broadcast.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the EBG database comprises an EBG interface for interacting with at least one of:

the server, and a content source, wherein the content source transmits the broadcast to the first BS and the second BS.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the DVR comprises a proactive shadow recorder for buffering the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the DVR comprises a format encoder for encoding the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS in a predefined format.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the predefined format is selected from a group consisting of a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) DVB-S, a DVB-H, a DVB-T, a Multimedia and Hypermedia Expert Group (MHEG), a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tuner for providing the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS to the DVR.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first BS transmits the broadcast in a first format compatible to the mobile device and the second BS transmits the broadcast in a second format compatible to the DVR.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display device connected to the DVR, the display device capable of displaying the broadcast.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the broadcast is selected from a group consisting of a video broadcast, an audio broadcast, an image broadcast, a data broadcast, and a combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein sending the second information comprises sending a record instruction from the mobile device to the DVR.

11. A method for recording a broadcast, the broadcast being transmitted from a first Broadcast Source (BS) and a second BS, the broadcast being transmitted from the first BS being displayed on a mobile device, the method comprising:

selecting a recording option on the mobile device;

sending a first information of the broadcast being transmitted from the first BS, the first information being sent from the mobile device;

receiving the first information, a first identity of the first BS and a second identity of the second BS;

sending a second information to a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), the second information being generated based on the first information, the first identity, and the second identity; and

recording the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS based on the second information.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising querying an EBG database for details regarding the broadcast.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein recording the broadcast further comprises tuning the DVR to the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS based on the second information.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending a confirmation from the DVR to the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising controlling the recording from the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein controlling the recording comprises performing at least one of:

stopping the recording, pausing the recording, and deleting the recording.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising buffering the broadcast being transmitted from the second BS.

19. A method for playing back a recorded broadcast on a mobile device, the method comprising:

decoding the recorded broadcast in a predefined format;

streaming the recorded broadcast to the mobile device; and

controlling the playing back.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein controlling the playing back comprises performing at least one of:

pausing the recorded broadcast, stopping the recorded broadcast, rewinding the recorded broadcast, forwarding the recorded broadcast, and deleting the recorded broadcast.