Patent Document ID: 9465996
Application ID: 14854321

Base Claim:
1. A method for recording a media content event at a media device, the method comprising: receiving by the media device, the media content event in a broadcasted media content stream; recording the media content event by the media device; monitoring real time provided by a system clock of the media device; comparing the monitored real time with a closing credits monitor time; in response to detecting the monitored real time reaches the closing credits monitor time, grabbing a series of subsequently received image frames from the media content event that is being recorded after the monitored real time reaches the closing credits monitor time, wherein the closing credits monitor real time is a predefined duration before recording end time of the media content event; wherein for each of the grabbed subsequently received image frames, the method further comprising: analyzing by the media device, the image frame to identify text presented in the analyzed image frame; identifying by the media device, at least one attribute pertaining to the identified text; comparing by the media device, the at least one attribute with a corresponding predefined closing credits attribute, wherein the corresponding predefined closing credits attribute is stored in a memory medium; and determining that the identified text corresponds to closing credits of the media content event in response to the at least one attribute matches the corresponding predefined closing credits attribute; and initiating an end of the recording of the media content event in response to determining that the identified text corresponds to the closing credits of the media content event.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one attribute is a color of a background in proximity to the identified text and the corresponding predefined closing credits attribute is a predefined background color, and wherein determining that the identified text corresponds to the closing credits of the media content event comprises: determining that the color of the background in proximity to the identified text corresponds to the closing credits of the media content event if the color of the background in proximity to the identified text matches the predefined background color.