公开(公告)号：US20160066063A1

公开(公告)日：2016-03-03

申请号：US14938434

申请日：2015-11-11

Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP

Inventor： Troy C. Meuninck ,  OLEG KASHAPOV

IPC: H04N21/845 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45

CPC classification number: H04N21/8455 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4332 ,  H04N21/4333 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/4888 ,  H04N21/632 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/8153

Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box (STB) comprising a controller to analyze scheduled media content with limited temporal accessibility provided by a content provider, select a portion of the media content based on the analysis of the media content and a recipient media device to receive the portion of the media content, transmit the portion of the media content to a DVR to store the portion of the media content, and transmit a metadata pointer associated with the portion of the media content to a server. A request to accept the portion of the media content is received by the recipient media device via the server, and the portion of the media content is retrieved from the DVR by the server based on the metadata pointer when the recipient media device accepts the request. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract translation: 结合本公开的教导的系统可以包括例如机顶盒（STB），其包括控制器，用于通过由内容提供商提供的有限的时间可访问性来分析调度的媒体内容，基于所述媒体内容选择媒体内容的一部分 分析媒体内容和接收者媒体设备以接收媒体内容的一部分，将媒体内容的一部分发送到DVR以存储媒体内容的一部分，并发送与该媒体部分相关联的元数据指针 内容到服务器。 接收媒体内容的一部分的请求由接收方媒体设备通过服务器接收，当接收方媒体设备接受请求时，由服务器根据元数据指针从DVR中检索出该部分媒体内容。 公开了其他实施例。