Patent ID: 8135761
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A media player for creating a media archive, comprising: a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader; an archival component to store the media content in a storage medium; a playback component to play back the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the archival of the media content in the storage medium; and a user interface presented on a display comprising an input to receive a single command to initiate concurrent playback and archival of the media content from the recording medium; wherein the archival component is to track which portions of the media content have been stored on the storage medium using a data allocation map (DAM) comprising a plurality of indicators, wherein each of the DAM indicators indicates whether a respective portion of the media content has been stored on the storage medium; and wherein the playback component navigates from a first location in the media content to a second location in the media content, and wherein the playback component is to determine whether the second location in the media content has been stored in the storage medium using the DAM.