Patent ID: 7003213

Claim:
An automatic broadcast program recorder for automatically selecting and recording desired video data from a plurality of broadcast programs, comprising: means for storing keywords preliminarily designated by a user; means for collecting broadcasted program information related to the broadcast programs; and control means for automatically selecting programs to be recorded by checking the broadcasted program information with the keywords and storing video data of the programs to be recorded into a video recording file by controlling a receiver, wherein the keyword storing means stores the keywords so as to be associated with a reservation identifier which is different from information of the broadcasted program information and which is used to identify a set of at least one program that satisfies a condition related to the keywords, and wherein said control means store the broadcasted program information of the selected programs to be recorded in association with the reservation identifier, controls the video data stored in the video recording file of the selected programs in association with the reservation identifier and displays the programs in the video recording file associated with the reservation identifier on a display in response to the users' input of the reservation identifier.