PVR set-up over the internet

• US 7,403,693 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2003
• Issued: 07/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Shteyn, Yevgeniy Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier; Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/606,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20040060071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,854 Days
• Field of Search: 386/83, 386/46, 386/69, 386/68, 386/1, 386/95, 386/4, 386/52, 386/55, 725/86, 725/87, 725/88, 725/101, 725/102, 725/103
• US Class Current: 386/291
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/55 having seven-membered rings, e.g. azelastine, pentylenetetrazole
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A server system enables a subscriber to select a specific broadcast program for recording and a specific location and time frame for play-out of the recorded program.

Claims

1. A method for making content available, the method comprising:

enabling a user to access a server via a website over the Internet,

receiving a user selection for a location;

identifying a device at the location;

receiving a selection by the user of a content item that will be broadcasted in the future;

recording the content item in a storage memory and transferring the content item from the storage memory to the device at a time selected by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transferring is a download of the content item from the storage memory to the device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item is streamed from the memory to the device upon request issued by the user at the device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the device is selected from a plurality of devices at the geographical location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection for the location is a selection of one of a plurality of businesses or residents.

6. A method for enabling transfer of a television program, the method comprising:

providing access to a server via a website over the Internet,

enabling a user to identify a first device and a second device via the website being different from respective local user interfaces used to locally control the first and second devices;

providing a list of content items stored at the first device;

receiving a selection for one of the content items;

enabling a conditional transfer of the content item from the first device to the second device upon connection of the second device to the server.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the content item is transferred to the second device if a user of the second device has authorized the transfer.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the content item is transferred from the first device to the second device if the second device has sufficient memory space to store the content item.