SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND DISTRIBUTING MEDIA CONTENT
First Claim
1. A digital video recording (DVR) system operating in an interactive television (iTV) communication system, comprising a controller to:
- record video content supplied by the iTV communication system as directed by a plurality of users of the iTV communication system, wherein the DVR system is located outside of the premises of each of the plurality of users;
receive from a communication device of one of the plurality of users a request for a portion of the recorded video content;
identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device;
transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device;
partition the transcoded video content into a plurality of transcoded portions, each transcoded portion having a sequence number to identify an order of reconstruction; and
transmit to the communication device the plurality of transcoded portions, wherein the communication device is able to begin a presentation of the transcoded video content before all of the plurality of transcoded portions have been received by the communication device.
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Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a digital video recording (DVR) system having a controller to record video content supplied by an interactive television (iTV) communication system, receive from a communication device of one of said users a request for a portion of the recorded video content, identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, partition the transcoded video content into a plurality of transcoded portions, and transmit to the communication device the plurality of transcoded portions. The communication device can begin a presentation of the transcoded video content before all of the plurality of transcoded portions have been received. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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25 Claims
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1. A digital video recording (DVR) system operating in an interactive television (iTV) communication system, comprising a controller to:
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record video content supplied by the iTV communication system as directed by a plurality of users of the iTV communication system, wherein the DVR system is located outside of the premises of each of the plurality of users; receive from a communication device of one of the plurality of users a request for a portion of the recorded video content; identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device; transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device; partition the transcoded video content into a plurality of transcoded portions, each transcoded portion having a sequence number to identify an order of reconstruction; and transmit to the communication device the plurality of transcoded portions, wherein the communication device is able to begin a presentation of the transcoded video content before all of the plurality of transcoded portions have been received by the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A digital media recorder (DMR) system, comprising a controller to:
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record media content supplied by an interactive media communication system (iMCS) as directed by a plurality of users of the iMCS; receive from a communication device of one of the plurality of users a request for a portion of the recorded media content; transcode at least a portion of the requested portion of the recorded media content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device; partition the transcoded portion of media content into a plurality of transcoded segments, each transcoded segment having an identification for facilitating a reconstruction of the transcoded portion; and transmit to the communication device the plurality of transcoded segments, wherein the communication device is able to begin a presentation of the transcoded portion of media content before all of the plurality of transcoded segments have been transmitted by the DMR system. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A communication device, comprising a controller to:
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submit a request to an interactive media communication system (iMCS) for a portion of media content recorded by the iMCS, wherein the iMCS records the media content as directed by a plurality of users of the iMCS; receive from the iMCS a portion of the requested portion of the recorded media content as transcoded media content conforming to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device; and present the transcoded media content before receiving a remaining portion of the requested portion of the recorded media content in the form of one or more additional portions of transcoded media content. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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