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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2011
Harold J. Plourde, Jr., Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Arturo A. Rodriguez, Norcross, GA (US);
Harold J. Plourde, Jr., Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Arturo A. Rodriguez, Norcross, GA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system manages the allocation and storage of media content instance files in a storage device of a media client device. In one embodiment among others, the system includes logic for processing successive portions of received media content instances and storing received media content instances in the storage device as respective media content instance files; and a processor configured with the logic to track the size of media content instance files to provide an indication of available free space, such that the indication is independent of a first buffer space in the storage device.