Patent ID: 8311383

Claim:
A receiving apparatus for sending received contents to a recording apparatus and for getting said recording apparatus to record the contents in accordance with preset recording reservations, said receiving apparatus comprising: recording ready time information acquisition means for acquiring from said recording apparatus information about a recording ready time that elapses from the time the recording of one content is ordered to be ended until the recording of another content is ready to be started, said recording ready time information acquisition means acquiring said recording ready time by communicating with said recording apparatus over said network under protocols stipulated by a Universal Plug and Play standard (UPnP), wherein said recording ready time information is defined by UPnP and described by predetermined tags inside device description information held by said recording apparatus; continuous recording determination means for determining whether two chronologically successive broadcast contents are reserved for recording based on said preset recording reservations; and end time setting means for, if said two chronologically successive broadcast contents are found reserved for recording, setting the time at which to end processing for recording the earlier of the two contents based on a broadcast start time of the latter of the two contents and on the acquired information about said recording ready time.