Patent ID: 7028329
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G11B,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A remote video recording and retrieval system comprising: a first computing device having access to a tuner, to a computer network, and to a video recording mechanism, said first computing device being effective for encoding a video signal into at least one predetermined video data encoding format; and a second computing device having access to said first computing device via said computer network, and having access to a first data store remote from said first computing device, said second computing device being effective for submitting recording instructions to said first computing device for recording a televised program; said first computing device being effective for accessing and recording said televised program via said tuner and said video recording mechanism, said first computing device being further effective for transferring a video encoded data version of said televised program as a video encoded data file to said first data store; wherein said first data store is remote to said second computing device, and said second computing device accesses said first data store via Internet to retrieve said video encoded data file.