Patent ID: 8111972
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording device recording, on a storage medium, a television program televised at a broadcasting channel in a broadcasting time zone on the basis of recording reservation data that specifies the broadcasting time zone and the broadcasting channel, said recording device comprising: a first storage module stored with preset data containing game specifying information for specifying a recording target game, competitor specifying information for specifying a player or a team participating in the game, and detection period specifying information for specifying a detection period; a second storage module stored with the recording reservation data; a communication device connected to a computer network and performing communications with another device on the computer network; a recording unit recording the TV program according to the recording reservation data and generating recording data; a third storage module stored with the recording data generated by said recording unit; a result data acquiring unit getting result data received from said another device, which contains result information of the game specified by the game specifying information in the preset data by controlling said communication device during the detection period specified by the detection period specifying information in the preset data; and an inhibiting unit inhibiting, if a loser specified by the received result data is coincident with the player or the team specified by the competitor specifying information in the preset data, said third storage module from being occupied by the recording data to be recorded based on the recording reservation data.