System and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930993-B2
Application number	US-201213442060-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2012
Priority date	Apr 20, 2007
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A system and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an estimated length of a media program where the estimated length is based on a plurality of different reported lengths of the media program in reported media program information, presenting at a display device a portion of the media program while it is being delivered by a media delivery system via a progressive download, and enabling active trick play functions for the media program based on the estimated length of the media program until a true time index is generated using an index file at an end of the progressive download of the media program. Other embodiments are disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication device, comprising:
a memory storing computer instructions; and
a controller coupled with the memory, wherein the controller, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising:
obtaining an estimated length of a media program, wherein the estimated length is based on a plurality of different reported lengths of the media program in reported media program information;
presenting at a display device in commu…

Assignees

• White Scott
• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• White Scott

Classifications

• H04N21/47217

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/76

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/8456 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N7/17318 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G11B27/34

  Physics · mapped topic