Patent ID: 8532471

Claim:
A reservation-recording method of a mobile communications terminal, the method comprising: receiving via a receiving unit broadcast information including information related to broadcast content viewable on the mobile terminal; storing the received broadcast information in a memory of the mobile terminal; receiving via a key input unit a partial information among entire information related to a desired broadcast content to be recorded that is not included in the received broadcast information, the partial information including title, broadcast channel, broadcasting starting time and broadcast airtime; registering the received partial information in a temporary reservation list of the memory; receiving via the receiving unit new broadcast information related to the broadcast content to be viewable on the mobile terminal; storing the new broadcast information in the memory of the mobile terminal; searching the new broadcast information stored in the memory of the terminal and finding the entire information of the desired broadcast content which matches the partial information; updating the temporary reservation list in the memory to include remaining information needed to record the desired broadcast content based on the found entire information; registering the updated temporary reservation list as a normal reservation list to record the desired broadcast content when the updating of the temporary reservation list is completed; receiving via the receiving unit the broadcast content at a broadcast air time and on a broadcast channel identified in the normal reservation list; and recording the desired broadcast content at the broadcast air time and on the broadcast channel identified in the normal reservation list, wherein a table of the temporary reservation list is the same as a table of the normal reservation list, wherein the updating step updates the temporary reservation list to include the entire information needed to record the desired broadcast content, and wherein the temporary reservation list is deleted when the updating of the temporary reservation list is completed.