Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?

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Jeff Baumgartner 12/5/2012 | 5:14:19 PM

re: Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?

Well, at least that's CCUR's position on it.. that it would apply across differrent types of nDVR implementations . If no one plays ball on licensing and this ends up as a sticky court battle, we may indeed find out if there's a judge that agrees with you on that count. But I'd give CCUR a better fighting chance than that patent troll that popped up on the VoD front earlier this week. JB

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ycurrent 12/5/2012 | 5:14:19 PM

re: Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?

let me venture to suggest that if Concurrent's nDVR patent can be equally applied to a wide variety of applications - Cablevision's RS-DVR, start-over services, and CDN implementations -where the technical challenges (such as massively scalable ingest) are different, then the patent was likely too broadly granted.

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Jeff Baumgartner 12/5/2012 | 5:14:17 PM

re: Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?

That's true, rs-dvr doesn't do caching for the copyright reasons you point out, but rs-dvr still needs to handle massive ingest to get it through the funnel and stored on the servers. And ingest resource management, in CCUR's view, falls under the juristiction of the patent, which, to your earlier point, is being viewed broadly (too broadly?) by CCUR. Jeff

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ycurrent 12/5/2012 | 5:14:17 PM

re: Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?

Seems much more likely that the patent is for CDN-type architectures where content is cached and delivered from decentralized edge locations on the network.  While this might apply to some nDVR applications (especially outside the US), and start-over services, it is not likely (my opinion) to apply to Cablevision's nDVR or similar applications, particularly since the legal stipulation for Cablevision likely prevents content from being cached.  By extension, applications for licensed content that cannot be cached are probably not in the scope of this patent.

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