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Real-time DVR polling system

  • US 9,271,040 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2014
  • Issued: 02/23/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving, by a server, a message from a client requesting a recording event for a user device, the client being different than the user device;

    responsive to the message, updating, by the server, a database at the server to include one or more database entries that indicate that the user device is to perform the recording event;

    sending, by the server, in one or more instant messages to the user device, a request to initiate synchronization of the one or more database entries between the database at the server and a local database at the user device;

    wherein the user device is configured to receive program guide data describing listings of programs;

    transmitting, by the server, information from the one or more database entries to the user device, the information, when stored in the local database at the user device, instructing the user device to perform the recording event;

    wherein the recording event causes the user device to schedule a recording of a data stream comprising a program indicated by the message from the client, the program guide data including a program description for the program;

    wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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