Automated run-time adjustment

摘要

A method and system for automated run-time adjustment that includes an ability to start or end a scheduled recording at an earlier or later period of time. The adjustment may allow a program to be recorded in its entirety regardless of whether the program is starting late or running long. The recording period adjustments performed in accordance with the contemplated run-time adjustment may be made with reliance on data transmitted with the program in order to optionally insure the adjustment are made with respect to the actual content and not some pre-determined or arbitrary recording extension inputted by a user.

主权项

1. A method of recording a program when the program runs over a scheduled completion time, the method comprising:
prior to the scheduled completion time, extending an ending of a recording of the program beyond the scheduled completion time if a previously identified piece of non-captioned data believed to be specific to the program has not changed; and indefinitely extending the ending of the recording until the non-captioned data is changed if the non-captioned data is of a first type, and finitely extending the ending of the recording for a finite period of time if the non-captioned data is not changed and the non-captioned data is of a second type, the finite period of time being a fixed period of time determined prior to recording the program.