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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Paul V. Hubner, McKinney, TX (US);
Kristopher Pate, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Steven T. Archer, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert A. Clavenna, II, Lucas, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes a media content recovery system 1) detecting that a DVR device is tuned to a first channel used by a media content provider to distribute a first media content program, 2) dynamically storing, in response to the detecting, first program data representative of the first media content program in a local buffer residing on the DVR device and in a recovery buffer as the first media content program is distributed by the media content provider, and 3) directing the DVR device to use the first program data stored in the local buffer to present the first media content program by way of a display while the DVR device is tuned to the first channel. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.