Patent ID: 11917215
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:
determine a popularity of the content item;
determine, based on the content consumption histories respectively associated with the plurality of user profiles, weights of other content items scheduled for recording for the plurality of user profiles associated with the shared pool, wherein the weights represent a likelihood of an order of consumption of content;
each time a new request to record the content item is received in association with a user profile of the plurality of user profiles associated with the shared pool, determine whether to update the number of the plurality of copies of the content item in the shared pool based on one or more of the determined weights of the other content items scheduled for recording and the popularity of the content item.