Patent ID: 9621946
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for displaying stored content information, comprising: based on instructions received from a content provider, recording, by a content receiver, a plurality of instances of content received via a single tuner of the content receiver, wherein: after recording the plurality of instances of content in accordance with the instructions received from the content provider, accumulating, by the content receiver, presented content characteristic information by tracking at least one characteristic of content being presented by the content receiver; determining, by the content receiver, to present a recorded content menu listing the plurality of instances of recorded content that were recorded based on the instructions received from the content provider; after recording the plurality of instances of content, analyzing, by the content receiver, the accumulated content characteristic information that was accumulated by the content receiver to rank the plurality of instances of recorded content that were recorded by the content receiver, based on a frequency of the at least one characteristic, wherein the at least one characteristic is selected from the group consisting of: a particular television program series and a particular content category; after recording the plurality of instances of content and analyzing the accumulated content characteristic information, sorting, by the content receiver, the plurality of instances of recorded content for presentation in the recorded content menu based at least on the analysis of the accumulated content characteristic information to rank the plurality of instances of recorded content based on the frequency of the at least one characteristic; and transmitting, by the content receiver to a display device, sorted indications of the sorted plurality of instances of recorded content in the recorded content menu.