Patent ID: 8913879
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G11B,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for broadcasting content, the method facilitating simultaneous recording of multiple programs on a digital video recorder (DVR), the method comprising: providing a plurality of content items; dividing each one of the plurality of content items into a multiplicity of chunks, each of the chunks having a duration bounded by a minimum duration beneath which a hard drive in a client device has insufficient transfer speed to record the content item and by a maximum size due to a real time playback delay introduced by storing the chunk on the hard drive in the client device, each one of the chunks comprising at least one reference frame, and at least one non-reference frame; for each one of the chunks: broadcasting using a transmission bitrate greater than the bitrate of the data stream in a single channel in a multiplexed broadcast service, wherein the chunk files in the data stream are transmitted sequentially.