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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2008
KE Yu, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Nicholas P. Hill, Atlanta, GA (US);
Troy C. Meuninck, Newnan, GA (US);
William A. Brown, Woodstock, GA (US);
Scott Morris, Decatur, GA (US);
Ashwini Sule, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ke Yu, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Nicholas P. Hill, Atlanta, GA (US);
Troy C. Meuninck, Newnan, GA (US);
William A. Brown, Woodstock, GA (US);
Scott Morris, Decatur, GA (US);
Ashwini Sule, Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a digital video recording (DVR) system having a controller to record video content supplied by an interactive television (iTV) communication system as directed by a plurality of users of the iTV communication system, receive from a communication device of one of the plurality of users a request for a portion of the recorded video content, identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, and transmit to the communication device the transcoded video content. The DVR system can be located outside of the premises of each of the plurality of users. Other embodiments are disclosed.