Patent ID: 8682145

Claim:
A method comprising: scheduling a recording of a particular media content in a content stream at a scheduled start time; receiving content in the content stream prior to the scheduled start time; deriving a first fingerprint from the content and querying a fingerprint database to identify the content in the content stream as the particular media content; starting the recording of the particular media content in the content stream prior to the scheduled start time; monitoring the content stream for identifying a second media content in the content stream that is different than the particular media content by: deriving a second fingerprint from the second media content; querying the fingerprint database with the second fingerprint to determine that the second media content in the content stream is different than the particular media content; stopping the recording of the content stream in response to identifying that the second media content in the content stream is different than the particular media content; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.