Patent ID: 8201209

Claim:
A recording system, comprising: a receiving apparatus; and a destination recording apparatus; wherein said receiving apparatus includes: a creation section configured to create reservation information designating a reception date and time at which to receive designated content data and a destination recording apparatus to which to transfer the received content data, and to create identification information identifying said reservation information, and a reservation control section configured to transmit said reservation information and said identification information to said destination recording apparatus; said destination recording apparatus includes: a recording section configured to record said reservation information and said identification information, and a recording control section configured to control recording of the content data based on said reservation information, wherein upon arrival of the reception date and time designated by said reservation information, said reservation control section of said receiving apparatus receives said content data and transfers the received content data, along with said identification information, to said destination recording apparatus designated by said reservation information, and in response to said recording control section of said destination recording apparatus finding, stored in said recording section, reservation information identified by said identification information transferred along with said content data, said recording control section reads said identified reservation information from said recording section to allow recording of said content data designated by said reservation information.