Patent ID: 8437621

Claim:
A recording/reproducing system comprising: (a) a server that records first title data that shows titles assigned to program data, commercial data or program corner data, and first time indexes corresponding to a broadcast start time of the program data, the commercial data or the program corner data; (b) a recording and reproducing device that records, or reproduces, or both records and reproduces, the program data; and (c) a network connecting the recording and reproducing device with the server, wherein the recording and reproducing device comprises i. a recording means for recording the program data in a recording medium, and generating second time indexes simultaneously with recording, and for recording the second time indexes together with positional data showing a recorded position of the program data; ii. a receiving means for receiving the first title data and first time indexes recorded in the server; iii. a report controlling means controlling reporting of the first title data received by the receiving means to a first user; iv. a reproduction controlling means controlling reproduction of the program data based on a third time index corresponding to second title data selected by the first user among the first title data reported by the report controlling means; v. a means for sending the second title data or the third time index designated from the first user to the server, after having added an other user identifier assigned to a second user; and vi. a means for making an inquiry to which the user identifier assigned to the second user is added at the server and for receiving the first title data or the first time index from the server when the second title data or the third time index to which the user identifier is added have been sent.