Patent ID: 9100702
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for making content available to a multimedia device, the method comprising: a first device periodically performing an automatic determination of whether a designated location in a storage device accessible by the first device contains any content item that has been downloaded to the designated location since the last periodic automatic determination of whether the designated location in the storage device accessible by the first device contains any content item that has been downloaded to the designated location; in response to a determination, among automatic determinations periodically performed by the first device, that the designated location of the first device contains a particular content item that has been downloaded to the first device, the first device performing: after at least a portion of the particular content item is transcoded into the second encoding format, the first device sending an instruction to the multimedia device, the instruction informing the multimedia device that the particular content item in the second encoding format is available for the multimedia device to request; receiving, from the multimedia device, the request for the particular content item; and in response to receiving the request, sending, to the multimedia device, the particular content item that is encoded in the second encoding format.