Patent ID: 8615573

Claim:
A method of managing a collective community space provided by a plurality of networked Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), wherein each PVR of the plurality of networked PVRs includes a storage space comprising a community space, where the collective community space includes the community space of each PVR, the method comprising, at a server: receiving a plurality of user interest events from the plurality of networked PVRs; generating a user interest model based on the plurality of user interest events; generating a community content model based on information describing media content stored in the collective community space; receiving notification that one of the plurality of networked PVRs has recorded content, wherein the content was recorded after generation of the user interest model; obtaining information describing the recorded content; determining whether to copy the recorded content from the one of the plurality of networked PVRs to the collective community space based on a comparison of the information describing the recorded content to one or both of the user interest model and the community content model, wherein the determination is made in response to the content being recorded on one of the plurality of networked PVRs; and instructing, based on the determination, the one of the plurality of networked PVRs to copy the recorded content to a community space of one or more additional PVRs of the plurality of networked PVRs, in order to copy the recorded content to the collective community space.