Rovi Technologies Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Adeia Technologies Inc.

Paul R Cooper

Matt Henry Van Der Staay

Chad Michael Williams

Imran Arif Maskatia

Yvonne N Ellefson

Arleen Camaganacan Fernando

Matthew Patterson

Matthew Ryan Patterson

Television tuner emulation techniques are described. In an implementation, a television tuner is emulated through execution of software on a processing system by a computing device, the emulated television tuner includes functionality to obtain television content over an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. The functionality of the emulated television tuner is exposed to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device such that the application is not aware that the television tuner is emulated through execution of the software.

Emulated television tuner

Emulated television tuner via execution of software by a computing device

Techniques that address content interruptions are described. In an implementation, an interruption is detected at the client device in receipt of a stream of content from a distribution system that is to be recorded locally in memory at the client device. A stream of content is generated at the client device and the generated stream of content is recorded to fill the interruption in the stream of content from the distribution system in the memory of the client device.

Content interruptions

Content stream management techniques are described. In an implementation, a communication is examined at a client device from at least one other client device that describes per stream usage of network bandwidth by the at least one other client device to receive content. Usage of the network bandwidth at the client device is managed based on the communication and a determination of per stream usage of the network bandwidth to receive content by the client device that also consumes at least a portion of the network bandwidth.

Content stream management

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Paul R Cooper