Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed upload of television content
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Application No.: US15678058Application Date: 2017-08-15
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Publication No.: US10313708B1Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Nicholas John Kelsey
- Applicant: SiliconDust USA Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Pleasanton
- Assignee: SiliconDust USA Inc.
- Current Assignee: SiliconDust USA Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Pleasanton
- Agency: NovoTechIP International PLLC
- Main IPC: H04N21/222
- IPC: H04N21/222 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/2743 ; H04N21/4147 ; H04N21/439 ; H04N21/44

Abstract:
An apparatus including a tuner configured for receiving television signals; a CPU configured to cause the apparatus to perform operations including receiving configuration data from a first server; receiving a broadcast data stream for the television content via the tuner; obtaining a first plurality of data chunks from the broadcast data stream, wherein each data chunk encodes a portion of audio and/or video included in the broadcast data stream; determining, based on the configuration data, which of the first plurality of data chunks are included in a second plurality of data chunks for uploading, wherein at least one of the first plurality of data chunks is not included in the second plurality of data chunks; and uploading the second plurality of data chunks to a second server.
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