Patent ID: 8863206

Claim:
A method for automatically populating content in anticipation of failure, the method comprising: receiving at one or more content provider computing devices information regarding at least one weather condition that relates to transmission of content from the one or more content provider computing devices to at least one receiver device; receiving at the one or more content provider computing devices data regarding at least one instance of content that the one or more content provider computing devices will transmit to the at least one receiver device at a scheduled air time and which the at least one receiver device is configured to record; determining, utilizing the one or more content provider computing devices, that there is a risk that the at least one weather condition will interrupt transmission of the at least one instance of content at the scheduled air time from the one or more content provider computing devices to the at least one receiver device; and transmitting the at least one instance of content from the one or more content provider computing devices to the at least one receiver prior to the scheduled air time.