Patent ID: 8782711

Claim:
A method of sending a remote record request to a recording device in a broadcast system, comprising: logging in to a system coupled to a broadcast center in the broadcast system with a wireless communications device; accessing a programming guide for the broadcast system with the wireless communications device; selecting a program for recording on the recording device and submitting the remote record request to the broadcast system, the remote record request comprising a program code and a subscriber ID; sending the remote record request to the broadcast center; verifying, at the broadcast center, that the subscriber ID is valid and the program is within a current subscription package within the broadcast system; communicating a verification response to the wireless communications device rejecting the remote record request when the program is not within the current subscription package or is above a billing limit or rating limit; communicating an override signal from the wireless communications device to the broadcast center to override the package, billing limit or a rating limit; inserting, at the broadcast center, the remote record request into a broadcast stream in response to the override signal; transmitting the broadcast stream within the broadcast system; receiving the broadcast stream at a plurality of subscriber sites; determining whether the remote record request in the broadcast stream is directed to the receiving subscriber site by comparing the subscriber ID to a subscriber site ID; and validating the remote record request at the subscriber site by determining whether the selected program can be recorded.