Patent ID: 6674960
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
A method of recording and playing back in a multimedia device an audio and video stream of data comprising the steps of:accepting at least one audio and video stream of data transmitted via a communication system to said multimedia device; buffering said accepted at least one audio and video stream of data; controlling, the storage of said at least one audio and video stream of data into a random access mass storage device, the so buffered audio and video stream of data into a the random access mass storage device, under the control of a micro-processor such that multiple audio and video streams of data are stored on said random access mass storage device and wherein any given stored audio and video stream so stored is individually retrievable from the random access mass storage device; automatically creating a selection list of the plurality stored multiple audio and video streams; providing a user controllable signal to said micro-processor to select among the so listed multiple audio and video streams so as to play back at least one of said store audio and video streams of data stored in said mass storage device in response to a user signal; wherein the play back is of an individually retrievable one of said at least one of said stored audio and video stream of data and such that a play back of a so selected stored audio and video stream can occur during an accepting, buffering and storing of a combined audio and video stream of data of a different individually retrievable audio and video stream of data, and wherein said different individually retrievable audio and video stream of data is different from, at least relative in time from said played back portion of the combined video and audio stream of data and wherein the creation of the selection list of said stored plurality of audio and video streams is performed by said micro-processor based upon said received audio and video stream.