Patent ID: 8935735
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of supporting trick playback of a program at a customer premise comprising: operating a playback device at the customer premise to send a message to a gateway device located at said customer premise to trigger recording of said program by said gateway device; operating the playback device to receive, via a first interface, program content corresponding to said program via a first network; operating the playback device to output a first portion of said program; operating the playback device to monitor for trick play commands while program content received via said first interface is being output; in response to said monitoring detecting a trick play command received from a user control device, sending a trick play message to the gateway device requesting said gateway device to provide a second portion of said program in accordance with said trick play command; and operating the playback device to receive program content including at least some of said second portion of said program from said gateway device via a second interface which is different from said first interface.