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Method and apparatus for recording program data without commercials

  • US 6,226,444 B1
  • Filed: 09/30/1997
  • Issued: 05/01/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for managing recording of broadcast data, comprising:

  • receiving, at an entertainment system, a request from a user to record a broadcast data program without commercials;

    recording the request in a log of the entertainment system;

    recording the broadcast data program without commercials on a recordable medium of the entertainment system in response to the request, the recording including determining whether a commercial or a program is being broadcasted in the broadcast data, and stopping the recording when a commercial is being broadcasted in the broadcast data and resuming the recording when a program is being broadcasted in the broadcast data; and

    after recording the request in the log, transmitting the record of the request from the log to an external computer system.

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