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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
May. 23, 2002
Balaji Thiagarajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharad Garg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arvind Kumar Peechara, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Theodore Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Parichay Saxena, Milpitas, CA (US);
Balaji Thiagarajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sharad Garg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arvind Kumar Peechara, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Theodore Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Parichay Saxena, Milpitas, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A short-term content buffer maintains segments of audio and/or video content and the content segments are identified with segment identifiers which enables management and playback of the content segments. In an embodiment, independent video content segments corresponding to a particular broadcast channel can be identified by associated content segment identifiers and the video content segments can be recorded together to generate a single recording of the content.