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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2001
Applicants:

Daniel Putterman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brad Dietrich, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeremy Toeman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Shiloh, San Francisco, CA (US);

Keith Craigie, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Doornbos, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Novaes, San Mateo, CA (US);

Song Huang, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Terry Barsoom, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pedro Freitas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Putterman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brad Dietrich, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeremy Toeman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Shiloh, San Francisco, CA (US);

Keith Craigie, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Doornbos, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Novaes, San Mateo, CA (US);

Song Huang, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Terry Barsoom, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pedro Freitas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Macrovision Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method is described. The method includes receiving a request at a control module from a first remote device to access media data from a storage management module and determining that a first user is requesting access to the data based upon a first remote identification (ID). The method further includes opening a second stream between the playback module and the storage management module and receiving the data at the playback module.


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