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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Ravishankar R. Iyer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ajay Garg, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vijay Tewari, Portland, OR (US);
Krishna Kant, Portland, OR (US);
Ravishankar R. Iyer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ajay Garg, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vijay Tewari, Portland, OR (US);
Krishna Kant, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a network of peer-to-peer communication devices controlled by a central controller. Using respective peer-to-peer communication devices, users can submit customized program schedules to the central controller, for media broadcasts that the users wish to record and view at a later time. The central controller maintains a global schedule of individual user-entered program schedules, and directs the peer-to-peer communication devices to record and re-play the content as requested in the schedules. The requested content may be recorded locally by any peer-to-peer communication device and transmitted upon request to a different peer-to-peer communication device of the network.