Patent ID: 9620170
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: detecting, by a television receiver during a primary recording of particular programming, degradation of a received signal quality associated with the particular programming to at or below a predetermined threshold value; instantiating, by a television receiver in response to the detecting, a secondary recording of the particular programming during the primary recording when the particular programming is accessible over at least one terrestrial network; querying, by the television receiver over the at least one terrestrial network, a computing system to acquire content associated with at least one gap in content within the primary recording present due to received signal quality; outputting, by the television receiver for display by a presentation device during playback of the primary recording, a notification to enable access to the secondary recording instantiated by the television receiver when the at least one gap in content within the primary recording is unavailable over the at least one terrestrial network; acquiring content associated with the at least one gap in content within the primary recording; editing the primary recording to repair the at least one gap; and editing the primary recording to include at least one advertisement that when displayed provides an announcement of a product related to the particular programming and offered by an entity other than a content provider associated with broadcast of the particular programming during the primary recording.