Patent ID: 9621951
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and/or executable by a processor to cause the processor to: receive a first request to record a first television program; receive the first television program; record the first television program by storing a representation of the first television program; receive a first request to send the representation of the first television program to a handheld device; receive a requested quality of the representation of the first television program to be sent to the handheld device; reduce a size of the representation of the first television program to create a reduced-size representation of the first television program that has the requested quality; and send the reduced-size representation of the first television program to the handheld device via a network, wherein the network is selected from the group consisting of: the Internet, a wireless network, a local area network, a cable television network, and a mobile telephony network.