Patent ID: 8667163

Claim:
A method of place shifting moving video content presented on a computer system display to a remotely-located display over a network, the method comprising: receiving user inputs defining a user-selected portion of imagery presented on the computer system display, wherein the user-selected portion of the imagery comprises moving video content; capturing only the user-selected portion of the imagery presented on the computer system display for placeshifting to the remotely-located display, wherein the capturing comprises capturing frames of raw video data describing the user-selected portion of the imagery to thereby represent the moving video content at a frame rate; converting the captured frames of the raw video data from the raw video data describing the user-selected portion of the imagery into a media stream that represents the moving video content in a compressed moving video format that is transmittable on the network; and transmitting the converted media stream on the network for presentation of the moving video content on the remotely-located display as the moving video content is also presented in the user-selected portion of the imagery on the computer system display.