Patent ID: 7212729
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit operable to receive data amount information regarding new content over a first network, to determine whether the current free recording capacity of a recording medium is sufficient to record the new content based on the data amount information regarding the new content, and to receive the new content over the first network and record the new content onto the recording medium when said recording unit determines that the current recording capacity of the recording medium is sufficient to record the new content; a notification unit operable to send, over a second network to an information processing terminal, a notification regarding the current free recording capacity of the recording medium when said recording unit determines that the current free recording capacity of the recording medium is insufficient to record the new content; a receiver operable to receive an instruction transmitted over the second network by the information processing terminal in response to the information processing terminal receiving the notification; and a processor operable to control said recording unit, based on the instruction, to process, at least a portion of prior contents previously recorded on the recording medium.