Patent ID: 9232254
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing users with access to respective directories of user recorded programs using a program guide, the method comprising: receiving at a remote server, using processing circuitry, a program from a broadcast source; recording, using the processing circuitry, the program on the remote server in response to receiving a request to record the program from a user equipment of a plurality of user equipment, wherein the user equipment is located on a network different from (1) a respective network of each other user equipment of the plurality of user equipment and (2) a network of the remote server; maintaining, using the processing circuitry, on the remote server, a user directory for each user of each user equipment of the plurality of user equipment, wherein each user directory reflects programs that have been recorded on the remote server for each respective user; and enabling, using the processing circuitry, each user to access the respective user directory associated with the respective user from the remote server using the program guide.