Program recording webification

• US 9,807,147 B1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Western Digital Technologies Incorporated (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Western Digital Technologies Incorporated (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Hesselink, Lambertus, Rizal, Dharmarus, van Beurden, Joep, Bjornson, Eric S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Application Number:
  US13/711,798
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• 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 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/654 Transmission by server directed to the client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

A method of providing a program recording to a user includes: accessing an application service provider that includes a program database via a first connection over a network with a user processor; selecting, with the user processor, a program recording to be received at the location of the user processor; providing the program recording selected with the user processor, at the location of the application service provider or a third location different from the location of the application service provider and the location of the user processor; and delivering the selected program recording to the location of the user processor.

Claims

1. A method of providing a program recording to a user, said method comprising:

accessing an application service provider that includes a program database via a first connection over a network with a user processor, wherein said application service provider is located at a first location, and wherein said user processor is located at a second location remote from the first location;

selecting, with the user processor, a program recording to be received at a third location remote from said second location of the user processor and remote from the first location of said application service provider;

providing the selected program recording at the first location of the application service provider or a fourth location different from the first location of the application service provider, the second location of the user processor, and the third location; and

delivering the selected program recording to the third location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting the selected program recording over a network interconnecting a processor at the third location with at least one of the application service provider and a processor at the fourth location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises delivering the selected program recorded on an optical or magnetic storage medium.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing the program recording comprises recording the program recording to be received on a recording device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the recording device is provided at the fourth location.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing additional locations different from the second location of the user processor, the first location of the application service provider, the third location, and the fourth location, wherein each of the additional locations is configured for selection to provide the selected program recording.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected program recording is an audio program.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected program recording comprises a video program.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the video program includes audio programming.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting the selected program recording over the Internet.

11. A method of providing a program recording to a user, said method comprising:

accessing an application service provider that includes a program database via a first connection over a network with a user processor;

selecting, with the user processor, a program recording to be received;

selecting, with the user processor, at least one location to which the program is to be delivered, wherein said selecting is from locations including at least two locations remote from one another and remote from the application service provider, and wherein said at least two locations may, but need not, include the location of the user processor;

providing the selected program recording at a location of the application service provider or a third location different from the location of the application service provider, the location of the user processor, and the at least two locations; and

delivering the selected program recording to the at least one location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting the selected program recording over a network interconnecting the application service provider or the third location with at least one processor at the at least one location.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said delivering comprises delivering the selected program recorded on an optical or magnetic storage medium from the third location to the at least one location.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting the selected program recording over the Internet.

15. A method of delivering a program recording from an application service provider, said method comprising;

accessing, with processor circuitry in a user device, an application service provider that includes a program database via a first connection over a network;

selecting, with the processor circuitry, the program recording to be delivered;

selecting, with the processor circuitry, at least one destination to which the program recording is to be delivered, wherein said selecting at least one destination includes selecting from a plurality of destinations that include at least two destinations that are remote from one another and remote from the program database, and wherein said at least two destinations may, but need not, include a location of the processor circuitry;

providing the selected program recording at a location of the application service provider or a third location different from the location of the application service provider, the location of the processor circuitry and the at least two destinations; and

delivering the selected program recording to the at least one destination.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting the selected program recording over a network interconnecting the application service provider or the third location with at least one processor at the at least one destination.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the network interconnecting the application service provider or the third location with at least one processor circuitry at the at least one destination is a local area network.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein said delivering comprises delivering the selected program recording on an optical or magnetic storage medium from the third location to the at least one destination.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein said delivering the selected program recording includes delivering the selected program recording over a communication path, at least a portion of which includes a public network.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said delivering the selected program recording includes delivering the selected program recording over the Internet.