Patent ID: 6798971
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
In a video recording system that is configured to receive television programming and that includes a recording medium for preserving video data that represents the television programming, a method for selectively maintaining a most recent version of a repeating television program, comprising:receiving input from a viewer identifying a repeating program for which a most recent version is to be maintained, wherein the repeating program corresponds with multiple versions of the repeating program that are broadcast to the video recording system, each of the multiple versions providing more current information than a previously broadcast version of the repeating program; receiving and recording, in entirety, a full and recent version of the repeating program at the video recording system; receiving and recording a more recent version of the repeating program at the video recording system; and upon determining that the more recent version is a full version of the repeating program, automatically discarding the recent broadcast version; and upon determining that the more recent version is not a full version of the repeating program, automatically discarding the more recent broadcast version.