Patent ID: 7697820
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. In a digital video recording system configured with a processor and at least one mass storage device, a method of incorporating a current event data stream from a television broadcasted video signal onto a pre-recorded video stream for playback on the television, the method comprising: generating a user recording profile of a user, said user recording profile identifying a television program; receiving, on a television channel, a first digital video stream comprising the television program identified in the user recording profile; recording onto the at least one mass storage device the received first digital video stream, based upon playback requirements of the user for the first digital video stream; said processor detecting an attempt to playback the recorded first digital video stream; responsive to said detecting, said processor retrieving the recorded first digital video stream; said processor determining that the retrieved first digital video stream contains a first event data stream and that the first event data stream includes a first event; responsive to said determining that the first event data stream includes the first event, said processor ascertaining whether a current event is located in the current event data stream in the television broadcasted video signal being received on the television channel; if said ascertaining ascertains that said current event is located in the current event data stream in the television broadcasted video signal being received on the television channel, then if said ascertaining ascertains that said current event is not located in the current event data stream in the television broadcasted video signal being received on the television channel, then