US 11,716,440 B2
Portable hub with digital video recorder
Royce D. Channey, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Kumar Abhimanyu, Bellevue, WA (US); Prakash Tripathi, Gurgaon (IN); and Sandip Ranjhan, Rohini (IN)
Assigned to Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US)
Filed by Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US)
Filed on Oct. 2, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/722,896.
Claims priority of application No. 201741015448 (IN), filed on May 2, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2018/0324384 A1, Nov. 8, 2018
Int. Cl. H04N 5/775 (2006.01); H04N 5/38 (2006.01); H04N 5/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04L 67/025 (2022.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04N 21/4227 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 5/7755 (2013.01) [H04N 5/38 (2013.01); H04N 5/64 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/44227 (2013.01); H04N 21/4508 (2013.01); H04N 21/4227 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable media content device for providing media content to remote devices external to a home network, the portably media content device, comprising:
a processor in communication with a memory configured to maintain media content, and a transceiver, the processor configured to:
recognize a home network provided at a first location;
instruct the transceiver to transmit a media request to an in-home media recorder connected to the home network and at the first location;
determine, in response to the media request, whether the media recorder includes media content not stored within the memory;
receive the media content from the media recorder in response to the media recorder including media content not stored within the memory;
store the media content in the memory;
recognize a remote device by receiving a content request for media content via a second network from the remote device, the second network being distinct and separate from the home network and not available at the first location;
determine whether the remote device has permission to access media content stored in the memory; and
transmit the media content in response to the remote device having permission to access the media content.