Digital Media Device Having Selectable Media Content Storage Locations

• US 20080022304A1
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta LLC (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta Incorporated (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Russ, Samuel H., Prus, Bohdan S.
• Application Number:
  US11/428,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20080022304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A digital media device having selectable media content storage locations, and associated methods, are disclosed. One exemplary method includes displaying a plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to a plurality of storage locations associated with a digital media device in a graphical user interface provided by the digital media device and receiving a user selection of an instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface. The exemplary method further includes displaying, in response to receiving the user selection of the instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content, a selection of one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instance of media content. The method further includes receiving a user selection of one the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

Claims

1. A computer program embodied in a computer-readable medium and executable by a digital media device, the computer program comprising:

logic configured to display a plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to a plurality of storage locations associated with the digital media device in a graphical user interface provided by the digital media device;

logic configured to receive a user selection of an instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface;

logic configured to display, in response to receiving the user selection of the instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content, a selection of one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instance of media content; and

logic configured to receive a user selection of at least one the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

2. The computer program of claim 1, further comprising:

logic configured to store the user selection of the instance of media content to the user selected storage device.

3. The computer program of claim 2, further comprising:

logic configured to display a revised listing of instances of media content at a time after receiving the user selection of the at least one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

4. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the plurality of storage locations comprises an internal storage medium located internal to the housing of the digital media device and an external storage medium located externally from the housing of the digital media device.

5. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the listing of instances of media content available to the plurality of storage locations represent instances of media content available for recording by the digital media device at a future time.

6. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the listing of instances of media content available to be stored to the plurality of storage locations represent previously recorded instances of media content.

7. The computer program of claim 6, further comprising logic configured to display an indication of the associated storage locations to which each of the instances of media content are stored while displaying the plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to the plurality of storage locations associated with the digital media device in the graphical user interface provided by the digital media device.

8. The computer program of claim 7, further comprising logic configured to filter the instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface by at least one selected storage location.

9. The computer program of claim 7, further comprising logic configured to receive a user selection of at least one of the instances of media content displayed that is to be transferred from a first storage location to a second storage location.

10. The computer program of claim 7, further comprising logic configured to receive a user selection of at least one of the instances of media content displayed that is to be deleted from its current storage location.

11. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the media device is a digital video recorder (DVR).

12. A method comprising:

displaying a plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to a plurality of storage locations associated with a digital media device in a graphical user interface provided by the digital media device;

receiving a user selection of an instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface;

displaying, in response to receiving the user selection of the instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content, a selection of one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instance of media content; and

receiving a user selection of at least one the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing the user selection of the instance of media content to the user selected storage location.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying a revised listing of instances of media content at a time after receiving the user selection of the at least one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of storage locations comprises an internal storage medium located internal to the housing of the digital media device and an external storage medium located externally from the housing of the digital media device.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the listing of instances of media content available to be stored to the plurality of storage locations represent instances of media content available for recording by the digital media device at a future time.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the listings of instances of media content available to be stored to the plurality of storage locations represent previously recorded instances of media content.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

displaying an indication of the associated storage locations to which each of the instances of media content are stored while displaying the plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to the plurality of storage locations associated with the digital media device in the graphical user interface provided by the digital media device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising filtering the instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface by at least one selected storage location.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving a user selection of at least one of the instances of media content displayed that is to be transferred from a first storage location to a second storage location.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving a user selection of at least one of the instances of media content displayed that is to be deleted from its current storage location.

22. A digital media device having logic embodied in a computer-readable medium and executable by a processing device associated with the digital media device, the computer-readable medium comprising:

logic configured to display a plurality of instances of media content available to be stored to a plurality of storage locations associated with the digital media device in a graphical user interface provided by the digital media device;

logic configured to receive a user selection of an instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content displayed in the graphical user interface;

logic configured to display, in response to receiving the user selection of the instance of media content from the plurality of instances of media content, a selection of one of the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instance of media content; and

logic configured to receive a user selection of at least one the plurality of storage locations to which to store the selected instances of media content.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the media device is a digital video recorder (DVR).