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Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Csc Holdings, Llc, Bethpage, NY (US);

Inventors:

John Kenny, Lake Grove, NY (US);

Peter Caramanica, Westbury, NY (US);

John Markowski, Smithtown, NY (US);

Assignee:

CSC Holdings, LLC, Bethpage, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6587 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/6408 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/23113 (2013.01); H04N 21/6408 (2013.01);
Abstract

A service provider network can enable subscriber of a service with capabilities of performing one or more trick playback modes, such as pause, play, stop, fast-forward, and/or rewind to provide some examples, on media content provided by a service provider network that is being presently viewed by one or more subscribers while abiding by current copyright laws. The service provider network can broadcast the media content to a subscriber device that is associated with the subscriber and can simultaneously store an exclusive copy of the media content being displayed by the subscriber device. And, the systems, methods, and apparatuses can time-shift the exclusive copy of the media content in accordance with the one or more trick playback modes and can unicast the time-shifted copy of the media content to the subscriber device to perform the one or more trick playback modes.


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