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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Zesen Chen, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Peter Chou, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sean Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian Gonsalves, Antioch, CA (US);
Donald M. Smith, San Ramon, CA (US);
Zesen Chen, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Peter Chou, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sean Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian Gonsalves, Antioch, CA (US);
Donald M. Smith, San Ramon, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to store a policy specifying at least one rule relating to recording, storage or delivery of broadcast programming to a consumer of such programming, and to record, store or deliver broadcast programming in response to at least one of the rules in the policy. According to another example embodiment, a method and system provide for a subscriber requesting that at least one broadcast television program be saved for the subscriber upstream from the subscriber in a television distribution system, and further that the at least one program offered to the subscriber for saving is determined based on a policy established for the at least program. According to another example embodiment a system provides at least one computing device including a computer program to control the recording or delivery of at least one broadcast television program in accordance with a policy established to control the recording or delivery of the broadcast television program.