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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
May. 20, 2008
Terry Q Guo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hui Wan, Beijing, CN;
Terry Q Guo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hui Wan, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An adaptive timeshift service is described. In embodiment(s), television content can be distributed from a live content server to television client devices, and the television content that is distributed from the live content server can be recorded at a timeshift server. Recorded television content can then be distributed from the timeshift server when requested by a television client device. An additional timeshift server can be allocated, and both the television content from the live content server and the recorded television content from the timeshift server can be written to a buffer of the additional timeshift server.