公开(公告)号：US10158837B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15144644

申请日：2016-05-02

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Arthur Van Hoff ,  James Barton

IPC: H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N9/804 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G11B27/32 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N5/913 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/4143 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4227 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4367 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/4405 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/63 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/21 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N1/21 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N7/088 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N5/95 ,  H04N9/83

Abstract: A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC.