MULTIMEDIA CONTENT SEARCH AND RECORDING SCHEDULING SYSTEM

摘要

Techniques described herein enable searching for multimedia content and for downloading or scheduling the recording of the multimedia content. The multimedia content may have been previously stored on one or more databases. The client device may download or schedule the recording of multimedia content in one step, for example, in one touch. When desired multimedia content is not available, the multimedia content is added to the client device's wish list. When the client device's does not have a wish list, the client device's wish list may be created on the spot. During the scheduling of the recording, a tag associated with the multimedia content is checked to determine whether the multimedia content is live or delayed. When the tag indicates the multimedia content is live or delayed, the client device prompts with a suggestion to add extra time to the end of the recording of the multimedia content.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
in response to an activation of a synchronization process, transferring, by a client device to a server, a wishlist stored on the client device; wherein each entry in the wishlist was, at a time when the entry was entered into the wishlist, not available for scheduling a recording on a currently available electronic program guide (EPG) data; receiving, by the client device from the server, schedule information of a particular multimedia content to which a program ID obtained from the wishlist corresponds, the schedule information of the particular multimedia content indicating a specific time for at least one showing of the particular multimedia content, the server monitoring EPG data updates and sending the schedule information in response to locating the program ID in an EPG data update; in response to receiving that the schedule information of the particular multimedia content is in the database, recording, by the client device, the particular multimedia content at the specific time as indicated in the schedule information.