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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Allan B. Lamkin, San Diego, CA (US);
Gregory I. Gewickey, Fountain Hills, AZ (US);
Todd R. Collart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Allan B. Lamkin, San Diego, CA (US);
Gregory I. Gewickey, Fountain Hills, AZ (US);
Todd R. Collart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sonic Solutions, Novato, CA (US);
Abstract
The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing content on at least a local network. Some embodiments provide a method for use in managing content that detects there is a change to content on a local network, determines whether the change is additional content on a first client device, determines whether the additional content can be identified, determines whether there is a predictive distribution scheme when the additional content is identified, distributes the additional content over the local network according the predictive distribution scheme when a predictive distribution scheme applies to the additional content, determines whether a new predictive distribution scheme can be defined when a predictive distribution scheme does not apply to the additional content, and saving the new predictive distribution scheme when a new predictive scheme can be defined.