Patent ID: 9609264
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of implementing backup recording of events, the method being performed by a hardware processor and comprising: receiving, by a personal video recorder (PVR) cluster coordinator, a message indicating an interruption in a current or scheduled recording of an event at a first PVR, the message including recording information of the first PVR and an identifier of a PVR cluster corresponding to the first PVR, the PVR cluster comprising a plurality of PVRs and including the first PVR; determining, by the PVR cluster coordinator, the PVR cluster corresponding to the first PVR based on the identifier included in the message; determining, by the PVR cluster coordinator, a serving PVR in the PVR cluster for performing a backup recording of the interrupted recording based on historical success rate of recording at the serving PVR; and transmitting, by the PVR cluster coordinator, the recording information of the first PVR to the serving PVR to execute the backup recording of the interrupted recording at the serving PVR after receiving the message.