Patent ID: 7426331

Claim:
A method for programming recordings for a recorder device containing a videogram medium and connected to a programming terminal equipment unit located in a determined area covered by one or more radio cells of at least one cellular radiotelephony network, the method being characterized in that it includes the following steps: a first programming step performed by a user, comprising the input of at least one type of programme to be recorded by means of an input interface of the recorder device connected to the terminal equipment unit, the type of programme being encoded with a determined format in a recording code by coding means of the programming terminal equipment unit; a step for storing the recording code in the storage means of the programming terminal equipment unit; a step for receiving, through receiving and reading means of the terminal equipment unit, coded data representative of a programme planning schedule of programme items from a plurality of programme broadcasters and information for identifying said programme items, transmitted over at least one broadcast channel of at least one cellular radiotelephony network within said determined area, in text messages, each of the programme items being defined by at least one concatenation sequence comprising at least one first portion coded with the recording code format and a second complementary portion; a step for detecting at least one desired programme item, consisting in discriminating among the plurality of first coded portions, at least one first portion similar to the recording code; a second programming step automatically performed by the terminal equipment unit, using the first discriminated portion and/or its second complementary portion for parameterizing in the recorded device, the recording of the detected programme item.