Accessing and storing original broadcast content

• US 8,750,675 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2012
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cole, Charles A., Dudek, Clark A., Inkumsah, Kobina K., Rodriguez, Adrian X.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Daquan
• Application Number:
  US13/623,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 386/239, 386/263, 386/278, 386/291, 386/248, 386/255, 386/259
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

In a method for accessing and storing original content without an overlay of interruption content, a computer receives original content with an overlay of interruption content during an interruption period from a content provider. The computer receives a notification that the interruption period is complete. The computer accesses original content without the overlay of interruption content. The computer stores the original content without the overlay of interruption content.

Claims

1. A method for accessing and storing original content without an overlay of interruption content, the method comprising the steps of:

a computer receiving original content with an overlay of interruption content during an interruption period from a content provider;

the computer receiving encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content during the interruption period from the content provider;

the computer receiving a notification that the interruption period is complete, wherein the notification includes a decryption key to decrypt the received encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content;

the computer decrypting the encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content using the decryption key; and

the computer storing the decrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the overlay of interruption content comprises audio and video.

3. A computer program product for accessing and storing original content without an overlay of interruption content, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive original content with an overlay of interruption content during an interruption period from a content provider;

program instructions to receive encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content during the interruption period from the content provider;

program instructions to receive a notification that the interruption period is complete, wherein the notification includes a decryption key to decrypt the received encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content;

program instructions to decrypt the encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content using the decryption key; and

program instructions to store the decrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein the overlay of interruption content comprises audio and video.

5. A computer system for accessing and storing original content without an overlay of interruption content, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive original content with an overlay of interruption content during an interruption period from a content provider;

program instructions to receive encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content during the interruption period from the content provider;

program instructions to receive a notification that the interruption period is complete, wherein the notification includes a decryption key to decrypt the received encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content;

program instructions to decrypt the encrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content using the decryption key; and

program instructions to store the decrypted original content without the overlay of interruption content.

6. The computer system of claim 5, wherein the overlay of interruption content comprises audio and video.