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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Frank Li-De Lin, Escondido, CA (US);
Paul Jin Hwang, Burbank, CA (US);
Masashi Kuroko, Escondido, CA (US);
Timothy Scott Miller, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Based on a user profile, content that is predicted to be desired by the user, including past episodes of a series that may have been missed by the user, is downloaded to the user's home system during periods of low bandwidth usage in the home system. A determination is made dynamically as to whether to provide the content from a server or a peer-to-peer network based on network attributes, file size, etc.