Moving content between set top box and end devices in home

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10104424-B2
Application number	US-201715811296-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2017
Priority date	Mar 24, 2010
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

A content moving device which enables providing content stored on a first user device, such as a DVR, in a first format and resolution to be provided to a second user device, such as a portable media player (PMP) in a second format and resolution. The content moving device identifies content on the first user device as candidate content which may be desired by the PMP and receives the candidate content from the DVR. The content moving device transcodes the candidate content at times independent of a request from the PMP for the content. The content moving device may provide a list of available transcoded content to the PMP for selection, and provide selected content to the PMP. The content moving device may also provide information relating to any protection schemes of the content provided to the PMP, such as DRM rights and decryption keys. The content moving device performs the often computationally intense and time consuming transcoding of user content to enable the user to move content between different user devices in a convenient manner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for transferring content from a mobile device to a media device, comprising:
a memory; and
a hardware processor, that when executing computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, is configured to:
determine that the mobile device has stored a video content item in a mobile video format;
determine that a communication channel has been established with the media device;
receive, from the media device, a video format to be associated with the media device, wherein the video format is a format suitable for presenting content on the media device, and wherein the mobile video format is different than the video format;
transcode the video content item by decoding the video content item in the mobile video format into decoded content and encoding the decoded content into transcoded content in the video format;
associate the transcoded content in the video format with the video content item in the memory; and
in response to receiving a request for the video content item from the media device, transmit the transcoded content to the media device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:
receive a request for the video content item from a second mobile device, wherein the second mobile device is associated with the mobile video format;
transcode the video content item by decoding the video content item into decoded content and encoding the decoded content into transcoded content in the mobile video format.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the video format and the mobile video format has particular characteristics that include a format and a resolution of each format.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the video format has particular characteristics that include a first container format, and the mobile video format has particular characteristics that include a second container format, and wherein the first container format is different from the second container format.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:
store the mobile video format in a mobile device profile that corresponds to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device profile is stored in a device profile database that includes at least one device profile other than the mobile device profile.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:
determine that the mobile device has stored one or more video content items that are not in the video format and have not been transcoded into the video format;
transcode the one or more video content items by decoding the one or more video content items into one or more decoded content items and encoding the one or more decoded content items into one or more transcoded content items in the video format;
associate the one or more transcoded content items in the video format with each of the one or more video content items in the memory; and
cause an indication to be presented that the one or more transcoded content items in the video format are available for the media device to download.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:
determine that the video content item has been deleted from the mobile device; and
in response to determining that the video content item has been deleted from the mobile device, delete the transcoded content from the memory.

8. A method for transferring content from a mobile device to a media device, the method comprising:
determining, using a hardware processor, that the mobile device has stored a video content item in a mobile video format;
determining that a communication channel has been established with the media device;
receiving, from the media device, a video format to be associated with the media device, wherein the video format is a format suitable for presenting content on the media device, and wherein the mobile video format is different than the video format;
transcoding the video content item by decoding the video content item in the mobile video format into decoded content and encoding the decoded content into transcoded content in the video format;
associating the transcoded content in the video format with the video content item in the memory; and
in response to receiving a request for the transcoded content from the mobile device, transmitting the transcoded content to the media device.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving a request for the video content item from a second mobile device, wherein the second mobile device is associated with the mobile video format;
transcoding the video content item by decoding the video content item into decoded content and encoding the decoded content into transcoded content in the mobile video format.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein each of the video format and the mobile video format has particular characteristics that include a format and a resolution of each format.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the video format has particular characteristics that include a first container format, and the mobile video format has particular characteristics that include a second container format, and wherein the first container format is different from the second container format.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising storing the mobile video format in a mobile device profile that corresponds to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device profile is stored in a device profile database that includes at least one device profile other than the mobile device profile.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining that the mobile device has stored one or more video content items that are not in the video format and have not been transcoded into the video format;
transcoding the one or more video content items by decoding the one or more video content items into one or more decoded content items and encoding the one or more decoded content items into one or more transcoded content items in the video format;
associating the one or more transcoded content items in the video format with each of the one or more video content items in the memory; and
causing an indication to be presented that the one or more transcoded content items in the video format are available for the media device to download.

14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining that the video content item has been deleted from the mobile device; and
in response to determining that the video content item has been deleted from the mobile device, deleting the transcoded content from the memory.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for transferring content from a media device to a mobile device, the method comprising:
determining that the mobile device has stored a video content item in a mobile video format;
determining that a communication channel has been established with the media device;
receiving, from the media device, a video format to be associated with the media device, wherein the video format is a format suitable for presenting content on the media device, and wherein the mobile video format is different than the video format;
transcoding the video content item by decoding the video content item in the mobile video format into decoded content and encoding the decoded content into transcoded content in the video format;
associating the transcoded content in the video format with the video content item in the memory; and
in response to receiving a request f

Assignees

• Google Technology Holdings LLC

Inventors

• Luthra Ajay K
• Grossman Michael A
• Moorthy Praveen N
• Moroney Paul
• Ramamurthy Arjun
• Xu Haifeng

Classifications

• H04N21/43615 Primary

  Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals (home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805) · CPC title

• H04N21/4516

  involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available · CPC title

• H04N21/4402

  involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display {(details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4363

  Adapting the video stream to a specific local network, e.g. a Bluetooth® network · CPC title

• H04N21/4147

  PVR [Personal Video Recorder] (H04N5/76 takes precedence {; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40}) · CPC title