Patent ID: 7020891

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first processor coupled to a communications channel device, the communications device capable of receiving and transmitting information to a video-on-demand (VOD) service provider; a VOD content decoder coupled to the first processor; a video and audio formatting processor coupled to the first processor and the content decoder; and an index memory coupled to the first processor, wherein the index memory stores a plurality of VOD program segment representations of at least one partial VOD program content based on at least one user selectable recording of the at least one partial VOD program content where the at least one partial VOD program content has already been viewed, and each of said plurality of VOD program segment representations is an identifier identifying a VOD program, a date the VOD program originally aired, a start time of a user selectable recording of a VOD program segment and a stop time of the user selectable recording of the VOD program segment.