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Remote accessible programming
| Details |
Inventors: Mizutani, Kenji;
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Vu; Ngoc
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Haro; Rosalio
A local user issues recording instructions via the Internet to a remote computing device. The remote recording device records broadcast programs available to it according to the received recording instructions, and compresses and encodes the recorded program into a specified media format. The file holding the encoded broadcast program may be subdivided into multiple smaller files before being moved into another computer specified by the user and accessible via the Internet. The remote computing device may receive recording instruction via a pulse telephone and may be incorporated into existing video cassette recorders. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The above objects are achieved in a remote record and retrieve system that permits a mobile user quick access to broadcast programs from remote locations.
A user on a local computing device connects to a remote computing device through a computer network, such as the Internet.
The Internet is preferred since it permits a mobile user easy access to remote computer networks throughout the world.
The remote computing device has access to a television or radio tuner, to a recording mechanism, and to a data compression and encode mechanism.
The user transmits recording instructions via the Internet to the remote computing device, which then proceeds to prepare the tuner and recording mechanism according the received instructions.
The program scheduled for recording is also digitized, compressed and encoded into any one of a plurality of available media formats such as MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, etc.
The recorded program is then transmitted via the Internet to the local user.
The recorded program may be emailed to the user, or may be transferred to a user specified machine accessible via the Internet by use of the Internet file transfer protocol, FTP.
Preferably, the remote computing device is aware of differences in the media format received by its tuner and the media format used by the remote user to play the recorded program.
For example, if the remote computing device is in Europe receiving television signals in PAL format, and the remote user is in North America and has a television that requires NTSC format, the remote computing device will perform any required format conversion prior to transmitting the encoded program to the local user.
In a preferred embodiment, the user transmits via the local computing device additional information to the remote computing device.
For example, the user may place a limit on the size of encoded files it may receive from the remote computing device.
In this case, the remote computing device will divide a large file holding the encoded, recorded program into multiple smaller files of size not larger than the user specified maximum file size
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