Patent ID: 8776137
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving at a digital video recorder located at a user premises, a user input, the user input identifying a video signal, the video signal comprising a program to be recorded; recording at the digital video recorder the video signal to a first video data file based on the user input; sending from the digital video recorder an instruction to a backup server responsive to the user input to cause the backup server to record the video signal to a second video data file, the backup server being remote from the digital video recorder, detecting, by the digital video recorder, a corrupted portion of the first video data file stored at the digital video recorder; sending, by the digital video recorder, a recovery query to the backup server to obtain a portion of the second video data file corresponding to the corrupted portion; and accessing, by the digital video recorder, the second video data file using the metadata responsive to the detecting,