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Multi-user video hard disk recorder

  • US 6,564,005 B1
  • Filed: 01/28/1999
  • Issued: 05/13/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for recording and playing television programs for a plurality of users, comprising:

  • creating a plurality of user profilers for the plurality of users, wherein each user profile contains one or more recording options and one or more playback options for a corresponding user;

    creating a plurality of program schedules, wherein each program schedule contains data regarding one or more selected television programs to be recorded for a corresponding user;

    recording the selected television programs as they air according to a corresponding user profile, wherein said recording includes saving the selected television programs in a nonvolatile storage;

    in response to a play request from a first user, displaying a play list, wherein the play list contains one or more available television programs that have been saved for the first user; and

    in response to a play list selection from the first user, playing a selected one of the television programs that have been saved for the first user on the nonvolatile storage according to the first user profile.

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