Patent ID: 8526784
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying a marking of a first portion of first media by a user, wherein the marking of the first portion of the first media indicates that the first portion of the first media should be omitted in subsequent playbacks of stored media; determining, using at least one processor device, that the marking is a trusted marking to be applied to media stored on both a corresponding digital video recorder of the user and digital video recorders of other users; determining, using at least one processor device, characteristics of the first portion of the first media based, at least in part, on the marking of the first portion of the first media by the user; identifying a commonality between the first portion of the first media and a particular portion of second media stored on a particular one of the digital video recorders of the other users based, at least in part, on the determined characteristics of the first portion of the first media, wherein the second media is different from the first media and the particular portion of the second media is less than all of the second media; and causing the particular portion of the second media to be omitted from playback of the second media from the particular digital video recorder based on the marking.