Patent ID: 6981050

Claim:
a method for automatically recording and publishing traditional media source programs over a network, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: receiving from a network client that is connected to the network a request to record and publish one or more traditional media source programs in one or more encoding formats, the one or more traditional media source programs being broadcast from a traditional media source that is not generally receivable at a geographic location at which the network client resides; in response to receiving the request, capturing the one or more traditional media source programs from the traditional media source that broadcasts the one or more traditional media source programs at a particular broadcast time to a broadcasting area of the traditional media source; encoding the one or more traditional media source programs in the one or more encoding formats to produce one or more encoded media programs; and publishing, at a time different from the particular broadcast time, the one or more encoded media programs over the network to the network client located outside the broadcasting area of the traditional media source.