Patent ID: 8078038
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: G11B,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content reception/recording device for selectively receiving and accumulating transmitted contents, comprising: a receiving unit; an accumulation medium; a storage unit storing therein free time slot information that indicates a free time slot in which a predetermined resource provided in the content reception/recording device is determined, according to statistics in a past, not to operate; an obtaining unit to obtain one or more pieces of transmission timing information that indicate timings at which accumulation target contents are transmitted respectively; a judging unit to judge whether or not the timings indicated by the obtained transmission timing information are present in the free time slot indicated by the free time slot information; and a control unit to, if the judging unit judges that the timings are present in the free time slot, to control the receiving unit to receive the accumulation target contents that are transmitted at the timings and to accumulate the received contents in the accumulation medium.