Patent ID: 8364021

Claim:
A method for managing previously recorded programs, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of previously recorded programs; determining a viewing history of each one of the plurality of previously recorded programs; categorizing each one of the plurality of previously recorded programs into at least one of a plurality of recorded program categories based upon the viewing history; determining an amount of memory capacity utilized by each of the plurality of previously recorded programs; for each one of the plurality of recorded program categories, determining an amount of memory capacity utilized by each one of the recorded program categories, wherein the amount of memory capacity utilized by each recorded program category corresponds to the amount of memory capacity utilized by each of the previously recorded programs categorized as members of that respective recorded program category; and generating a recorded program category-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the recorded program category-based GUI graphically depicts a chart showing each of the plurality of recorded program categories as an icon, and wherein a size of each of the respective icons of the chart of the recorded program category-based GUI graphically depicts the amount of memory capacity utilized by each of the plurality of recorded program categories.