Patent ID: 7797716

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: first through n-th recording means for recording input broadcast contents to a recording medium; user interfacing means for inputting an instruction of a user to reserve a recording of a broadcast content; and reservation managing means which manages reservations of broadcast content recordings with respect to each of said first through n-th recording means and which, when making a reservation of a broadcast content recording in accordance with the recording reservation instruction input through said user interfacing means, selects automatically one of the first through n-th recording means available for a time slot corresponding to the recording reservation, in order to make said recording reservation to the selected recording means, when a time slot corresponding to said recording reservation conflicts with a time slot of a previously made recording reservation because none of the first through n-th recording means is available for the time slot corresponding to said recording reservation, and the recording reservation and the previously made recording reservation are assigned respective priorities by the user, one having a higher priority than the other, performs a process to allocate the time slot to the reservation having the higher priority, and to maintain a record of the reservation having the lower priority, when the recording reservation having the higher priority is canceled by the user, performs a process to change priority of the recording reservation having the lower priority to the higher priority and to change priority of the recording reservation that is canceled to a lower priority.