Patent ID: 9392209
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: logic configured to receive a request to record a first television program on a first output device; logic configured to determine that recording the television program conflicts with a scheduled recording of a second television program; logic configured to determine that the first television program is assigned a lower recording priority than the second television program, wherein the first television program and the second television program each relate to different television programs; logic configured to output a request for approval to search for the first television program for downloading thereof; logic configured to search for the first television program for downloading thereof in response to receiving approval for the search; logic configured to output an indication of availability of the first television program for downloading thereof simultaneously with a cost associated with downloading the first television program; logic configured to download the first television program from a server to the first output device; logic configured to perform, on the first output device, the scheduled recording of the second television program; logic configured to store the downloaded first television program and the recorded second television program on a storage device operatively coupled to the first output device; logic configured to determine an available storage capacity of the first output device and a second output device; logic configured to facilitate a transfer of at least a portion of the downloaded first television program and/or at least a portion of the recorded second television program from the first output device to a second output device to provide a same amount of storage space on the first output device and the second output after the transfer; and the storage device for storing the downloaded first television program and the recorded second television program.