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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Aravind Vaidhyanathan, Chennai, IN;
Vijayan Radhakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
Sivasubramanian Parthasarathy, Muthialpet, IN;
Venkatesan Sriraman, Chennai, IN;
Deepak Natarajan, Coimbatore, IN;
Kavitha PanneerSelvam, Chennai, IN;
JanardhanReddy Tripuram, Nalgonda, IN;
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein may use a computing device, such as a smartphone or tablet computer, that is attached to a local area network, as a storage device or supplemental storage device for a set-top box (STB) that is also attached to the local area network. In one implementation, the STB may stream, to the computing device, video content corresponding to a television program that is being viewed by a user of the STB. In response to a command such as a rewind or unpause operation, the STB may request the video content from the computing device; receiving the requested video content from the computing device; and satisfying the unpause or rewind operation, based on the received video content.