Tuner sharing video recorder system architecture

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8116611
APP PUB NO 20040156614A1
SERIAL NO

10605246

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The present invention is directed to a shared tuner video recorder system architecture. In one embodiment, multiple set-top boxes are networked and configured to share tuners with each other. If a specific set-top box has no tuners available to schedule a show, it attempts to schedule the show on the tuner of another set-top box in the network.

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  • ROVI GUIDES, INC.;PDT INTERACTIVE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bumgardner, James Sunland, US 2 92
Krakirian, Haig H Burbank, US 45 3387

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