Personal content server apparatus and methods

Details Personal content server apparatus and methods Personal content server apparatus and methods

2010-02-22

2011-12-13

Jean Gilles, Jude (Department: 2447)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Remote data accessing

Accessing a remote server

C709S226000, C709S220000, C709S223000, C709S202000, C709S250000, C709S217000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08078696

ABSTRACT:
Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from the local e.g., (subscription) network to a remote network upon authorization by a content manager process. Various access, business or operational rules are applied depending on the content and delivery mode; e.g., to live video broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), or archived content from the subscriber's digital video recorder (DVR) or networked PVR. Secondary content (e.g., promotions, advertisements, etc.) can also be selectively replaced if desired in order to make the remotely delivered content more appropriate to the remote user's context.

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