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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2016
The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Raynold M. Kahn, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Steven Kasakitis, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Christopher R. Roy, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Erin K. Nelson, Torrance, CA (US);
Christopher J. Cabanne, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Luke J. Crook, San Pedro, CA (US);
Gregory Vagnati, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Noreen Fong, Cerritos, CA (US);
Eric J. Bennett, Los Angeles, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for allocating tuner resources in a multi-room digital video recording system, wherein the system includes a server device having a plurality of tuners therein and a first client device in communication with the server device and allocated at least a first tuner from the plurality of tuners. A second client in communication client device generates a tuner request. The server device allocates the first tuner to the second user device and communicates a content signal through the first tuner to the second client device.