Patent ID: 8824867

Claim:
A method of recording programs comprising media content data, transmitted by a media content provider via at least one communication channel, wherein each program is associated with metadata containing details relating to the program, said method comprising: identifying related programs of at least one communication channel; and online automatic recording of the identified related programs of at least one predefined communication channel according to predefined recording rules, using a recording device for enabling at least one viewer to select and view the recorded programs, using a video-audio display unit, wherein the identification of related programs is carried out by analyzing the metadata associated with each transmitted program identifying at least one relation of at least one relation type between at least some of the programs, wherein said identification of related programs is done automatically allowing a user to select already recorded related programs, wherein the identified related programs are associated with programs groups, each group representing the relation relating all programs in the group and the relation type associated therewith, and wherein said identification of a related program comprises identifying at least one text part of the title of each program as an ID of the program and identifying matching IDs of programs by identifying all programs that have matching text parts in their titles as associated with the same programs group.