Patent ID: 7143429

Claim:
A program recording preset system comprising a first terminal apparatus for requesting to send program information, which is attribute information about a program, and a program chart, a program information providing apparatus having storage means for storing the program information and the program chart and sending the program information and the program chart to said first terminal apparatus upon request therefrom, and a second terminal apparatus for presetting recording of a specified program listed in the program chart sent to said first terminal apparatus, said first terminal apparatus, said program information providing apparatus, and said second terminal apparatus being interconnected by a network, wherein: said first terminal apparatus includes: display means for displaying the received program information and program chart; input means for inputting a program recording preset request; and first sending means for sending the program recording preset request inputted through said input means; said program information providing apparatus includes: first receiving means for receiving the program recording preset request from said first terminal apparatus; searching means for searching, in response to the program recording preset request received by said first receiving means, said storage means for the program information; second sending means for sending the program information retrieved by said searching means to said first terminal apparatus; program recording preset script generating means for generating, on the basis of the program information retrieved by said searching means, a program recording preset script, which is a control command for recording the program listed in the program chart to a recording medium; third sending means for sending the program recording preset script generated by said program recording preset script generating means; and program recording preset cancel script generating means for generating, in response to a program recording preset cancel request, a program recording preset cancel script, which is a control command for invalidating the program recording preset script; and said second terminal apparatus includes: second receiving means for receiving the program recording preset script supplied from said third sending means of said program information providing apparatus; and signal converting means for converting the program recording preset script received by said second receiving means into a program recording preset control signal, wherein said program information providing apparatus comprises electronic mail generating means for generating an electronic mail message indicating the reception of one of the program recording preset script and the program recording preset cancel script by said second terminal apparatus upon reception of the script reception information by said script reception information receiving means.