Patent ID: 8374487

Claim:
A method of generating an information list, the method comprising: retrieving information associated with segments from a plurality of stored video contents, the information comprising at least a topic identifier specifying a topic for each segment and a source identifier specifying a source, a start time and an end time for each segment; in response to determining that segments exist corresponding to a specified topic identifier on a specified topic and that the specified topic identifier is registered in an information list, registering the source identifier of the retrieved information and an associated ordinal number in the information list; in response to determining that segments exist corresponding to the specified topic identifier and that the specified topic identifier is not registered in an information list, generating an information list indicating the segments corresponding to the specified topic identifier, and registering the source identifier of the retrieved information and the associated ordinal number in the information list; rearranging the information list in order of the ordinal numbers; and generating information associated with a single segment formed by combining the segments corresponding to the specified topic identifier according to the re-arranged information list; said retrieving, generating, registering and rearranging steps being carried out at a switch-on time of a hard disk recorder so that the generated information list only includes information indicating segments of currently stored video contents.