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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.:

US 9756389 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2015

Systems and methods for digital media storage and playback

Applicant:

Really Simple Software, Inc., Tiburon, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bruce Randall, Painswick, GB;

Barrett Stump, Petaluma, CA (US);

Assignee:

Really Simple Software, Inc., Tiburon, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Primary Examiner:

Fernando Alcon

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04N 21/4147 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/4408 (2011.01); H04N 21/2347 (2011.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/2743 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); G11B 27/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/2347 (2013.01); H04N 21/234309 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/2743 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/4408 (2013.01); H04N 21/4431 (2013.01); H04N 21/8186 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/8586 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for storage and playback of broadcast media received via a local digital video recording (DVR) system. The system includes the DVR system configured to receive the broadcast media and upload the broadcast media to a storage server over a network. The DVR system divides the broadcast media content into blocks and assigns a unique block ID to each block based on the block data. Prior to uploading each block to the storage server, the unique block ID is sent to the storage server, which only uploads and stored the block if a duplicate block has not already been stored on the storage device, minimizing network demand. A transcoding server coupled to the storage server transcodes the broadcast media content for streaming over the network.

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