PROVISIONING PREFERRED MEDIA CONTENT
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1. A method, comprising:
- identifying a particular tuner of a multi-tuner television receiver, wherein the particular tuner is designated as in an idle mode;
accessing, in response to the identifying, a listing that itemizes a plurality of television channels to be recorded by the television receiver for an indeterminate time period; and
recording at least one television channel of the plurality of television channels using the particular tuner while the particular tuner is designated as in the idle mode.
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Abstract
Allocating idle tuner resources to buffer or record broadcast programming determined to be desirable or preferred by any particular user or television viewer.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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identifying a particular tuner of a multi-tuner television receiver, wherein the particular tuner is designated as in an idle mode; accessing, in response to the identifying, a listing that itemizes a plurality of television channels to be recorded by the television receiver for an indeterminate time period; and recording at least one television channel of the plurality of television channels using the particular tuner while the particular tuner is designated as in the idle mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A television receiver, comprising:
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one or more processors; a plurality of tuners; and a memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the one or more processors and having stored therein processor-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to; identify a particular tuner of the plurality of tuners that is in an idle mode; access a listing that itemizes a plurality of television channels to be recorded by the television receiver for an indeterminate time period; and record at least one television channel of the plurality of television channels using the particular tuner while the particular tuner is designated as in the idle mode. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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20. A method, comprising:
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identifying a particular tuner of a multi-tuner television receiver, wherein the particular tuner is designated as in an idle mode; accessing, in response to the identifying, a listing that itemizes a plurality of television channels to be recorded by the television receiver for an indeterminate time period, wherein the plurality of channels is at least one of manually populated to the listing and automatically populated to the listing without end-user input; selecting at least one television channel from the listing based upon a priority scheme that identifies the at least one television channel as preferred over other television channels of the plurality of television channels; recording at least one television channel of the plurality of television channels using the particular tuner; determining a change in status of the particular tuner from the idle mode to an active mode; and discontinuing recording of the at least one television channel in response to determining the change in status.
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