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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2006
Peter T. Barrett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Yerga, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Clancy, Berkeley, CA (US);
Peter T. Barrett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chris Yerga, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Clancy, Berkeley, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Multi-DVR (digital video recorder) media content arbitration is described. In an embodiment, client devices are each a node of a multi-DVR system where the nodes are implemented for communication with each other. An arbitration algorithm can arbitrate media content rendered by the client devices so as not to exceed a media content usage capacity of the multi-DVR system. Each of the client devices of the multi-DVR system can communicate status messages to each of the other client devices to indicate rendered media content, and can receive the status messages from each of the other client devices. Each of the client devices can also implement the arbitration algorithm to independently determine which of the client devices has lowest priority media content that can be terminated to provide capacity for higher priority media content at one of the client devices of the multi-DVR system.