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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (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, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to store a policy specifying rules 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 a rule. According to an example embodiment, a method and system provide for a subscriber requesting that a broadcast television program be saved for the subscriber upstream from the subscriber in a television distribution system, and that the program offered to the subscriber for saving is determined based on a policy established for the program. According to another example embodiment a system provides a computing device including a computer program to control the recording or delivery of a broadcast television program in accordance with a policy established to control the recording or delivery of the broadcast television program.