Patent ID: 8099753
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions for: detecting a service outage of a media program consumed by a satellite media receiver by way of a satellite port of the satellite media receiver which receives satellite signals from a satellite dish system; if the service outage occurs during a digital video recorder recording, then determining an extent that the service outage has affected the digital video recorder recording; retrieving at least a portion of the media program in response to detecting the service outage and without a request for the media program being transmitted by the satellite media receiver, wherein an entire media program is retrieved when the service outage caused a corruption of the digital video recorder recording and wherein only a portion of the media program needed to restore an unrecorded portion is retrieved when the service outage caused loss of only a part of the media program; transcoding the portion of the media program for transmission over an Internet Service Provider network to the satellite media receiver via a gateway coupled to the Internet Service Provider network and coupled to a broadband port of the satellite media receiver; transmitting the transcoded portion of the media program over the Internet Service Provider network to the broadband port of the satellite media receiver via the gateway; performing the transcoding and transmitting steps responsive to detecting that the service outage occurred while the satellite media receiver was presenting the media program at a media device; and transmitting to a digital video recorder service managed by the satellite media receiver over the Internet Service Provider network the retrieved portion of the media program without transcoding responsive to detecting that the service outage occurred while the satellite media receiver was recording the media program.