Patent ID: 8590000

Claim:
A wireless digital video recorder for mobile and on-demand digital recording of video content, comprising: a wireless phone; a receiver associated with the wireless phone configured to receive a broadcast signal containing video content; a digital video recorder in communication with the receiver and configured to digitally record the video content received by the receiver; a storage controller in communication with the digital video recorder, the storage controller being configured to create an alert when storage space available to the digital video recorder reaches a predetermined threshold; a signal strength monitor in communication with the receiver and configured to monitor strength of the broadcast signal received by the wireless digital video recorder; a position locator in communication with the digital video recorder configured to store one or more pointers associated with one or more locations within video content recorded by the digital video recorder; and a user interface, at the wireless phone and accessible by a user from a user computer separate from the wireless phone, for receiving instructions from the user, via the user computer and over a wireless connection with the Internet, to record the video content; wherein the receiver is associated with wireless telephony functions of the wireless digital video recorder and is capable of receiving wireless voice data; wherein the receiver and the digital video recorder are incorporated within the wireless phone; wherein the alert comprises a one of an audible alert, a visual alert and a combination of an audible and a visual alert; wherein a user of the wireless digital video recorder uses the position locator to store the pointer to identify the location of a video segment in the video content recorded by the digital video recorder.