Patent ID: 9071873
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) system comprising: a network interface to communicate data between the RS-DVR system and a subscriber system via a network; a file system module coupled to the network interface; an ingest agent coupled to the file system module to receive encoded media segments that represent a media content file encoded at a plurality of different bitrates, wherein the encoded media segments include a respective set of encoded media segments corresponding to each of the plurality of different bitrates, and wherein each of the encoded media segments has a time range relative to the media content file; and a plurality of memory storage devices coupled to the file system to store the encoded media segments on behalf of the subscriber system as a single logical file across the plurality of memory storage devices in accordance with a distribution scheme influenced by the plurality of different bitrates and time ranges of the encoded media segments, wherein: