Patent ID: 8352988
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: presenting a program guide identifying titles of audiovisual data and identifying a set start time and a provided stop time for each of the identified titled audiovisual data presented in the program guide; receiving a request for recording one of the identified titled audiovisual data selected from the program guide prior to the set start time associated with the one of the identified titled audiovisual data selected from the program guide; determining from metadata whether the selected one of the identified titled audiovisual data has a known duration defined by the set start time and the provided stop time or has an unknown duration wherein the stop time is tentative and an actual stop time is not communicated to a set-top box; when the selected one of the identified titled audiovisual data is determined from the metadata to have a known duration, allocating sufficient memory to record the selected one of the identified titled audiovisual data having the known duration; when the selected one of the identified titled audiovisual data is determined from the metadata to have the unknown duration wherein the stop time is tentative and the actual stop time is not communicated to the set-top box: