Video data recorder with for recording predefined format shows

• US 20030044165A1
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Published: 03/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Digital Networks North America, Inc. (DEI Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Digital Networks North America, Inc. (DEI Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Townsend, Karl, Woodward, Donald Jr., Wood, Anthony, Shanson, Spencer, Kessler, Edward, Shannon, Douglas
• Application Number:
  US10/279,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20030044165A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/83
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/93 Regeneration of the television signal or of selected parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction

Abstract

A video data recordable having integrated channel guides allowing a user to control recording and storage of television signals into personal channels for later playback and viewing. In the described embodiment, the user may specify criteria for recording of shows from an input source such as a broadcast signal and shows are then selected based on the user specified criteria and recorded for later playback. Storage of the shows may be organized into personal channels in order to facilitate later playback, e.g., the user may specify a channel of action movies, a channel of nature programming, a channel for sports, etc. The shows to be recorded may also have a predefined format which may be used to ease playback of recorded programming by allowing the user to easily locate and playback sections of programming of interest.

Claims

1. A method of viewing video programming comprising:

a) recording video programming onto a recording media at a user'"'"'s site;

b) obtaining indexing information indicating the format of the video programming; and

c) viewing the recorded video programming based on the indexing information.

2. The method as recited by claim 1 wherein the indexing information is based on a predefined program format.

3. The method as recited by claim 2 wherein the video programming is CNN Headline News.

4. The method as recited by claim 1 wherein the indexing information comprises closed captioning data.

5. The method as recited by claim 1 wherein the video programming is manually indexed and the indexing information is downloaded to the user'"'"'s site.

6. A method of viewing a defined format video program comprising:

d) recording the defined format video program onto a recording media at a user'"'"'s site;

e) obtaining indexing information indicating the format of the defined format video programming; and

f) viewing the recorded defined format video programming based on the indexing information.

7. The method as recited by claim 6 wherein the indexing information is based on a predefined program format.

8. The method as recited by claim 7 wherein the video programming is CNN Headline News.

9. The method as recited by claim 6 wherein the indexing information comprises closed captioning data.

10. The method as recited by claim 6 wherein the video programming is manually indexed and the indexing information is downloaded to the user'"'"'s site.