Method and system for dynamically managing storage space of video recording devices

• US 9,565,465 B1
• Filed: 09/25/2015
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Original Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Inventors: Natarajan, Gowrishankar Subramaniam, Rajagopal, Harish Nair
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Daquan
• Application Number:
  US14/865,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20170034571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 386/291, 386/294, 386/295, 386/296, 386/297, 386/299
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• 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 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

The technology relates to dynamically managing storage space of one or more video recording devices. The video recording devices sends one or more notifications to recording session management server. The one or more notifications are associated with recording status of an event and the storage space status of each of the one or more video recording devices. Each device is associated with one or more predefined policies configured by a user of the video recording devices. Based on predefined policies and notifications, the recording session management server identifies change in status of free space and used space in each of the one or more video recording devices. The recording session management server schedules video recording devices to perform actions based on change in status of free space and used space and one or more event parameters for dynamically managing the storage space of the one or more video recording devices.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically managing storage space of one or more video recording devices, the method comprising:

receiving, by a recording session management server, one or more notifications from each of the one or more video recording devices, wherein the one or more notifications are associated with recording status of an event and the storage space status of each of the one or more video recording devices;

receiving, by the recording session management server, one or more policies corresponding to each of the one or more video recording devices;

identifying, by the recording session management server, change in status of free space and used space in each of the one or more video recording devices based on the one or more notifications and the one or more policies; and

scheduling, by the recording session management server, at least one of the video recording device for performing one or more actions based on the change in status of free space and used space and one or more event parameters for dynamically managing the storage space of the one or more video recording devices.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more video recording devices comprises cloud based video recording devices and one or more customer premise equipment'"'"'s.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more notifications received from each of the one or more video recording devices is stored in a recording database of the recording session management server.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the storage space status comprises at least one of total available space in the video recording device, projected usage of the video recording device for the event, actual usage of the video recording device for the event, free space in the video recording device and available space in the cloud based video recording devices.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more policies is based on at least one of inputs received from a user managing the video recording devices and inputs derived dynamically based on activities of the user.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more notifications received from each of the one or more video recording devices are associated to a user account based on identification (ID) number of each of the one or more video recording devices.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein receiving the one or more notifications further comprises identifying metadata information associated with the event.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more actions comprises at least one of deletion of events, archiving of events, rescheduling the event in the one or more video recording devices and identifying the video recording device for recording future events.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more actions are performed at time intervals configured by the recording server.

10. A recording session management server comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores processor-executable instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to;

receive one or more notifications from each of the one or more video recording devices, wherein the one or more notifications are associated with recording status of an event and the storage space status of each of the one or more video recording devices;

receive one or more policies corresponding to each of the one or more video recording devices;

identify change in status of free space and used space in each of the one or more video recording devices based on the one or more notifications and the one or more policies; and

schedule at least one of the video recording device for performing one or more actions based on the change in status of free space and used space and one or more event parameters for dynamically managing the storage space of the one or more video recording devices.

11. The recording session management server as claimed in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to store the one or more notifications received from each of the one or more video recording devices in a recording database of the recording server.

12. The recording session management server as claimed in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to associate the one or more notifications received from each of the one or more video recording devices to a user account based on identification (ID) number of each of the one or more video recording devices.

14. The recording session management server as claimed in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to configure the policies based on at least one of inputs received from a user managing the video recording devices and inputs derived dynamically based on activities of the user.

13. The recording session management server as claimed in claim information associated with the event based on the received one or more notifications.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon that when processed by at least one processor cause a recording session management server to perform operations comprising:

receiving one or more notifications from each of the one or more video recording devices, wherein the one or more notifications are associated with recording status of an event and the storage space status of each of the one or more video recording devices;

receiving one or more policies corresponding to each of the one or more video recording devices;

identifying change in status of free space and used space in each of the one or more video recording devices based on the one or more notifications and the one or more policies; and

scheduling at least one of the video recording device for performing one or more actions based on the change in status of free space and used space and one or more event parameters for dynamically managing the storage space of the one or more video recording devices.