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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2016
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/4147 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26208 (2013.01); H04N 7/1675 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/25816 (2013.01); H04N 21/266 (2013.01); H04N 21/26216 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 21/4331 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying video content having a scheduled broadcast time during a first viewing period that satisfies a viewership threshold and facilitating a transfer of the video content to a multimedia storage device. The video content is transferred to the multimedia storage device during a second viewing period prior to the first viewing period. The video content includes the data to prevent the multimedia storage device from sending the video content to another device prior to the time when the program is scheduled to be broadcast. Other embodiments are disclosed.