Patent ID: 6608963
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A system comprising:an input that receives one or more sets of television program broadcast scheduling information, including one or more of channel, start time, end time, date, day of the week and length; video system recorder controller that provides commands to one or more of a video recorder and a tuner to record a television program according to one of the sets of broadcast scheduling information; an index memory for storing video medium identification, video medium index information and the broadcast scheduling information for television programs recorded under control of the video system recorder controller; a data receiver that receives data, from a television broadcast, including titles, sets of television program broadcast identification information, each such set including one or more of channel, start time, end time, date, day of the week and length, and associations between a plurality of the titles and a plurality of the sets of television program broadcast identification information; and wherein after one or more sets of television program broadcast scheduling information have been received by the input, the title of a television program scheduled to be recorded or having already been recorded is selected from a television broadcast being monitored by the data receiver, stored in the index memory, and associated with the previously stored broadcast scheduling information if the broadcast identification information associated with the title matches the broadcast scheduling information used to identify the program for recording.