Patent Application Number: 2005321287
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Mik Clarke (about 1 year ago)
I've wanted an implementation of something like this for a while. Really annoying to have something one a recorder in a room other than the one you want to watch it in. Love to be able to network all of them (and a couple of PCs and NAS's) together. I've a feeling the Foxtel IQ2 is headed in this direction - they've certainly got the ports.
Prefiltering the list of contents sent to each playback capable device is a good idea - it'll cut down on network traffic and make the selection menus shorter. Still won't solve all problems as I suspect it relies on the media being correctly labeled in the first place, but that's not really its problem. Presumably this carries over into filtering the dynamic content updates (no point in telling it somethings been added if it can't play it).
Dynamic notification of when something is added? I don't know if windows sharing does this, but it's worth checking. Does it notify on update (or removal) of directory contents?
The WD TV Live device I've got handles each networked media source as a separate device - I'm not entirely sold on the advantages of bundling all the media from all the devices into a single big list - although worth checking out what it's media library functions might do - once it's indexed each device they may all appear in a big list.Jimmy Ti (about 1 year ago)
Some key concepts I gathered from reading the application:
- Each node in the network stores content to be shared locally
- Each node includes their own capability information in the request they send to other nodes for sharable content
- Based on the capability information received, each node respond the request with only content can be consumed by the requesting node
- Any content changes will be advertised by the node in which the changes occurred
- Any capability changes will be advertised by the node in which the changes occurred
The nature of the system seems very similar to a standard distributed peer-to-peer file sharing system, with the exception of capability-based filtering for content query respond.Ben McEniery (about 1 year ago)
This invention is a method and computer program for sharing content across a peer-to-peer or cluster network using broadcast encryption methods.
It is designed to enable users to share content across a private network of devices such as PCs, laptops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, etc.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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