Patent ID: 8375411

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following, receive electronic program guide data; determine to render selection options in an electronic program guide for content items scheduled to be available in the future; create a notification of a content item selected from said electronic program guide, said notification including a mobile alert flag for registering a mobile alert and a recording flag for registering a recording instruction; determine to transmit the notification of the selected content item to at least one remote electronic program guide system of another apparatus prior to the selected content item being available; wherein at the another apparatus, when the notification is passed, and the apparatus is authorized to register the recording instruction at the another apparatus, cause, at least in part, registration of the recording instruction in a memory of the another apparatus that is stored with an electronic program guide thereby recording the content item, and when the recording instruction conflicts with a previous recording instruction, cause, at least in part, conversion of either the previous recording instruction or the recording instruction into a reminder; and schedule an alert message of said selected content item to be transmitted as a message to a mobile handset at a time point that has a predetermined time period before the selected content item being available.