Patent ID: 9307274
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing remote access to television programming recorded using a television receiver, the method comprising: transmitting, by a television service provider system, a broadcast television program to a plurality of television receivers; receiving, by the television service provider system, the broadcast television program as recorded by the television receiver of the plurality of television receivers and an indication of a user account associated with the television receiver; scheduling, by the television service provider system, encoding of the broadcast television program into at least one format and at least one bitrate; encoding, by the television service provider system, the broadcast television program into a format of the at least one format and a bitrate of the at least one bitrate; and storing, by the television service provider system, the encoded television program in the format and the bitrate in association with the user account.