Sling Media Inc.

Echostar Technologies Corporation

Sling Media Pvt. Ltd.

Thuuz, Inc.

David Randolph Eyler

Ilya Asnis

Padmanabha R Rao

Raghuveer Tarra

Kalleri Faizel Rehiman

Satish Nayak

Gurubasappa Kore

Ravinder Chouhan

Mark Kikuya Maisenbacher

An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account. The account management server, for example, includes, but is not limited to, a storage device configured to store identifying information for each of a plurality of service devices and configured to store an account associated with each of the plurality of service devices, and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: receive identifying information from a communication device; identify at least one service device whose stored identifying information matches the received identifying information; and grant management access to the account associated with the identified at least one service device to the communication device.

System for controlling access to an account

A stream of media content is received in a media device. A value is determined in metadata of the media content relating to an indicia of interest in a portion of the media content. A first clip including the portion of the media content is stored based at least in part on the indicia of interest, whereby the first clip is made available for later retrieval.

Dynamic media recording

Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of 'faster than real time' encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.

Placeshifting live encoded video faster than real time

A method of providing data associated with reception of media content is presented. In the method, a communication device receives media content from a media content receiver via a communication network. The received media content is output to a user of the communication device. Data is then generated in the communication device which includes information identifying a channel selected by the user over which the media content receiver receives the media content. The data further includes information identifying a time period during which the communication device receives the media content. The data is transferred via the communication network to a communication node.

Generation of data concerning reception of media content at a communication device

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