Patent ID: 9232174
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a first request to record a first television program, wherein the first request to record the first television program is initiated on a first handheld device; receiving the first television program from an antenna, in a satellite signal and/or in a cable signal; recording the first television program by storing a representation of the first television program on a computer readable medium of a digital video recorder; receiving a first request to send the representation of the first television program from the digital video recorder to the first handheld device; reducing a size of the representation of the first television program; and sending the reduced-size representation of the first television program to the first handheld device via at least one of: the Internet, a wireless or local area network having a router and/or gateway between the digital video recorder and first the handheld device, and a mobile telephony network, wherein the first request to send the representation of the first television program to the first handheld device is initiated on the first handheld device, wherein reducing the size of the representation of the first television program is based, at least in part, on an attribute associated with at least one of: the Internet, the wireless or local area network having a router and/or gateway between the digital video recorder and the first handheld device, and the mobile telephony network.