Patent ID: 8687940

Claim:
A method for providing a list of records in a digital broadcast receiver, the method comprising: receiving a list request for requesting a list of record series belonging to a series from a data broadcast-associated application; generating a first list for including the record series in response to receiving the list request; selecting a record from records included in a second list of stored records based on a link between the series and the record and including the selected record in the generated first list; and transmitting the generated first list to the data broadcast-associated application, wherein the selected record is determined by comparing an object of the record series included in the first list to an object of the record included in the second list of stored records, and extracting the corresponding record from the second list when the object of the record series of the first list and the object of the second list are the same, wherein the object of the record series of the first list is a ParentRecordingRequest object, and the object of the record of the second list is a RecordingRequest object, the object of the record series and the object of the record have an inheritance relationship, if the ParentRecordingRequest object is the same as the RecordingRequest object, and the corresponding record is extracted from the second list, when the object of the record series and the object of the record have the inheritance relationship.