Patent ID: 7260308

Claim:
A method for controlling a video media recording device configured for automatically identifying and selectively skipping commercial message segments of a video signal, comprising: recording said video signal on a digital recording medium in a digital format; monitoring said video signal to detect at least one event start and at least one event end corresponding to a beginning and an end of at least one commercial message; selectively storing digital data identifying at least one of an event start information and an event end information as part of a digital data stream comprising said recorded video presentation, at least one of said event start information and said event end information identifying the location of said at least one commercial message, wherein said digital format is MPEG based and said storing step is further comprised of recording at least one of said event start information and said event end information for said commercial only in a location following an MPEG picture header in a extensions_and_user_data location in said MPEG picture header.