Patent ID: 9025940
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for selectively recording and playing back broadcast media content items, comprising: a. a push content manager that receives media content information relating to the media content items; b. non-transitory data storage that receives and records from a broadcast stream ones of the media content items selected by the push content manager on the basis of the media content information; and that deletes recorded ones of the media content items, selected by the push content manager on the basis of the media content information; c. a user interface that provides a list of recorded media content items to a user and that receives a user selection of the indicated media content items for playback by the push content manager; and wherein the media content information includes soft and hard expiry times corresponding to the media content items, wherein for each of said media content items the hard expiry time is later than the soft expiry time, and wherein the non-transitory data storage is arranged to prevent deletion of the recorded media content items before the corresponding soft expiry times, and to enforce deletion of the recorded media content items after the corresponding hard expiry times.