Patent ID: 7882528

Claim:
A method comprising: monitoring, by a client device providing special events programs and series programs to a user, one or more programs a user views on an entertainment system; determining, by the client device, whether the user is watching a special event program or a series program; responsive to determining that the user is watching a special event program, assisting the user, by the client device, in recording episodes associated with the special event program by establishing a special event program record event for recording the special event program, wherein the series program is broadcast throughout a year on a regular basis, and wherein the special event program is not the series program; recognizing, by the client device, that the special event program record event established for the special event program is one of a type of special event program record event that is likely to be reused by the user; examining EPG data over a predetermined period of time for additional programs that match the special event program record event; and following the expiration of the predetermined period of time without locating additional programs that match the special event program record event, hibernating, by the client device, the special event program record event, the hibernating comprising removing the special event program record event from a first portion of a user interface presented by the client device that lists programs for which the user has established current record events to be designated second portion of the user interface dedicated to hibernated record events.