Patent ID: 7493024

Claim:
A method of managing recordings of audio or audiovisual documents within a communication network comprising a plurality of audiovisual terminals furnished with recording means, the audiovisual documents to be recorded and the terminals being associated with attributes; the method comprising: introducing by a user of a maximum level of morality accessible from a terminal, calculating a value of fit between the document and a terminal; the value of fit being calculated by comparing the attributes of the audiovisual document and the attributes associated with the audiovisual terminal, the value of fit being all the higher the greater the similarity between these attributes, the morality of the document and the maximum level of morality accessible from the terminal being compared; in order to bar the recording of the document in a terminal if the morality level of this document is higher than the morality level of this terminal repeating the step calculating by calculating a value of fit for each terminal liable to record it and taking into account the morality level; selecting the terminal for recording the document whose value of fit is greatest; and recording of the document in the selected terminal.