| US 7,568,213 B2 | ||
| Method for providing episodic media content | ||
| Tom Carhart, Menlo Park, Calif. (US); Murgesh Navar, San Jose, Calif. (US); Sergiy Bilobrov, Coquitlam (Canada); and Andrey Yruski, Pacifica, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to VoloMedia, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 09, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/248,691. | ||
| Application 12/248691 is a continuation of application No. 10/717183, filed on Nov. 19, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0031366 A1, Jan. 29, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 7/173 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 725—86 [725/39; 725/46; 725/61; 725/100; 700/94] | 9 Claims |
| 1. A method for providing episodic media, the method comprising:
providing a user with access to a channel dedicated to episodic media, wherein the episodic media provided over the channel
is pre-defined into one or more episodes by a remote publisher of the episodic media;
receiving a subscription request to the channel dedicated to the episodic media from the user;
automatically downloading updated episodic media associated with the channel dedicated to the episodic media to a computing
device associated with the user in accordance with the subscription request upon availability of the updated episodic media,
the automatic download occurring without further user interaction; and
providing the user with: an indication of a maximum available channel depth, the channel depth indicating a size of episodic
media yet to be downloaded from the channel and size of episodic media already downloaded from the channel, the channel depth
being specified in playtime or storage resources, and the ability to modify the channel depth by deleting selected episodic
media content, thereby overriding the previously configured channel depth.
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