Patent ID: 8707369

Claim:
A method comprising: allowing a device, in a first mode, to display live content regardless of whether the live content was previously scheduled for recording; while the device is in the first mode, receiving user input that selects one or more recommending entities from a plurality of recommending entities; scheduling one or more content recordings based on one or more sets of recommended items from the selected one or more recommending entities; setting the device from the first mode to a second mode of operation based on input received from a user, wherein the second mode is different from the first mode; while the device is in the second mode: preventing, by the device, recording of any content that is not indicated within at least one of the one or more sets of recommended items from the selected one or more recommended entities; preventing, by the device, display of any content that is not in the one or more content recordings scheduled based on the one or more sets of recommended items from the selected one or more recommended entities; wherein the device comprises a processor.