Patent ID: 9154721
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for recording multiple television programs, the method comprising: identifying a first recording timer on a digital video recorder, the first recording timer associated with a channel and having a first beginning time and a first ending time; identifying a second recording timer on the digital video recorder, the second recording timer associated with the channel and having a second beginning time and a second ending time, the second beginning time occurring temporally before the first ending time and the second ending time occurring temporally after the first ending time; receiving a video stream using a tuner of the digital video recorder; recording the video stream between the first beginning time and the first ending time into a first file; recording the video stream between the first ending time and the second ending time into a second file; and copying a portion of the first file, corresponding with the video stream between the second beginning time and the first ending time, to the second file after the second ending time.