Patent ID: 11910051
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for storing media assets, comprising:
determining to record a media asset for a first profile and for a second profile;
determining the first profile is associated with a first start-offset from a start time of the media asset;
determining the second profile is associated with a first end-offset from an end time of the media asset; and
storing media content associated with the media asset based on the first start-offset and the first end-offset in one or more storage devices,
wherein storing the media content associated with the media asset based on the first start-offset and the first end-offset in the one or more storage devices further comprises:
determining the first start-offset is larger than a largest start-offset of an entry associated with the media asset in a content-hits table; and
determining the first end-offset is larger than a largest end-offset of the entry associated with the media asset in the content-hits table; and

wherein the method further comprises:
updating the largest start-offset of the entry associated with the media asset to the first start-offset based on determining that the first start-offset is larger than the largest start-offset; and
updating the largest start-offset of the entry associated with the media asset to the first start-offset based on determining that the first start-offset is larger than the largest start-offset.