Patent ID: 9640220
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A system for recording media content, comprising: a segmenter splitting transport stream data and index data corresponding to the media content into discrete files at periodic intervals on access point boundaries, each of the discrete files including a respective transport segment and a respective index segment; a segment storage device storing the discrete files in a segment database, wherein the segment database comprises information that allows groups of transport segments to be played back in sequence, each of the groups of transport segments corresponding to a respective program; and a recording control device responsive to a request to record a program to configure the system to begin recording, wherein the segmenter adds to the segment database wherein the program to be recorded comprises a program in progress and the recording control device querying the segment database to find an existing segment stored in the segment database matching a time range and a service for the program, and adding the existing segment at a start of the recording.