Patent ID: 9432461
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04H,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a memory device; and providing, via a user interface, user-selectable options for managing storage space in the memory device that is allocated for a user account, the user-selectable options including an option for defining a condition for generating an alert when a threshold amount of the storage space is consumed; receiving, over a network, a data stream from a media device assigned to the user account; determining an encoding rate corresponding to the data stream received by the media device; storing the data stream in the storage space; monitoring consumption of the storage space in response to the storing; and upon determining the condition is met responsive to the monitoring, transmitting the alert to the media device, the alert indicating an amount of storage space consumed and an approximated amount of recording time remaining for the data stream before a maximum capacity of the storage space is reached, the approximated amount of recording time determined as a function of the encoding rate.