Patent ID: 8718450

Claim:
A portable device comprising: a setting means that sets a recording reservation; an acquisition means that, when instructed to display a list of recording reservations, acquires information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting an information processing device; an integrating means contained in the portable device that combines a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the portable device allows checking of the contents of both the recording reservation set in the portable device and the recording reservation set in the recording device, wherein the contents comprise broadcast data, and selecting at least one of the portable device and the recording device as the recording site, wherein the portable device is capable of being the recording site; and a display control means that displays the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the recording reservations combined by the integrating means, and displays information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations, wherein the information processing device, when requested from the portable device, accesses the recording device to acquire the information that indicates the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device and then transmits the information to the portable device, and wherein the acquisition means acquires the information transmitted from the information processing device.