Systems and methods for accessing recoverable program content

摘要

Content delivery systems and methods are operable to provide recoverable program content to a media device. An exemplary embodiment detects an occurrence of a qualifying event, wherein the qualifying event is associated with an unavailable portion of a program of interest; communicates a request to establish a backchannel between the media device and a program content device in response to detecting the occurrence of the qualifying event; communicates a request for a recoverable portion of the program of interest from the media device to the program content device over the backchannel, wherein the requested recoverable portion of the program of interest corresponds to the unavailable portion of the program of interest; and receives at the media device the recoverable portion of the program of interest from the program content device.

主权项

1. A method for providing recoverable program content from a program content device to a media device, the method comprising:
receiving, at the program content device, a plurality of programs from a media transmit facility that are being concurrently broadcast to a plurality of media devices, wherein the media device is one of the plurality of media devices receiving the broadcast of the plurality of programs; storing the received plurality of programs in a memory residing in the program content device; establishing a backchannel between the media device and the program content device, wherein the backchannel between the media device and the program content device is established in response to a request made by the media device; receiving, at the program content device, the request from the media device for a recoverable portion of a program of interest,
wherein the recoverable portion of the program of interest corresponds to an unavailable portion of the program of interest that is not available at the media device, andwherein the request is generated by the media device in response to the media device detecting weather interference of a signal being broadcast to the media device such that a plurality of video frames of the program of interest are not correctly received and processed by the media device; determining if the program of interest is currently stored in the memory of the program content device; and in response to determining that the program of interest is stored in the memory of the program content device, communicating the recoverable portion of the program of interest from the program content device to the media device over the backchannel.