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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2004
Chad Andrew Le Fevre, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Mark Gilmore Mears, Zionsville, IN (US);
James Duane Tenbarge, Fishers, IN (US);
Bret David Hawkins, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Chad Andrew Le Fevre, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Mark Gilmore Mears, Zionsville, IN (US);
James Duane Tenbarge, Fishers, IN (US);
Bret David Hawkins, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A television apparatus having digital serial bus ports allows a user to select a user-designated digital video content source input such as a digital tuner of the television apparatus and digital serial bus compliant components connected to the television apparatus via the digital serial bus ports of the television apparatus, and to cause digital content from the user-designated digital content source device to be recorded onto a digital recording device connected to the television apparatus via the digital serial bus ports. The present invention allows a user to continuously record digital content onto a digital recording device (e.g. an AVHDD), whether from the TV's digital tuner or from another digital serial bus compliant device in a peer to peer arrangement. The connection is always recording, but allows the user to select or designate a digital (i.e. MPEG2) source (i.e. the TV tuner or another digital serial bus compliant device), in addition to displaying the selected content.