Patent ID: 8055121

Claim:
A recording system for recording a broadcasting program comprising: a channel demodulating part configured to receive and demodulate the broadcasting program on a particular channel; a storage medium configured to record the broadcasting program; a controller configured to select the broadcasting program from among a plurality of broadcasting programs scheduled to be recorded onto the storage medium starting at a same time, to set a value for an identifying information corresponding to the selected broadcasting program to a first value when the selected broadcasting program first starts to be recorded on the storage medium, to set a value for identifying information corresponding to non-selected broadcasting programs to the first value and to change the value of the identifying information corresponding to the selected broadcasting program to a second value when the selected broadcasting program is successfully recorded onto the storage medium or maintain the value of the identifying information corresponding to the selected broadcasting program to the first value when the selected broadcasting program fails to be successfully recorded onto the storage medium; and a recording processing part configured to store identifying information, recording start time, recording end time and channel information corresponding to broadcasting programs scheduled to be recorded onto the storage medium, to read the identifying information corresponding to broadcasting programs scheduled to be recorded onto the storage medium, and to automatically request a network server for the re-transmission of a broadcasting program for recording whose previous attempt at recording onto the storage medium failed and without waiting for the network server to rebroadcast the program for recording, wherein the request to the network server includes a recording start time, recording end time and channel information for the broadcast program requested to be re-transmitted for recording.