DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER CONFLICT HANDLING EMPLOYING REBROADCAST REQUESTS

摘要

A conflict analysis (CA) information handling system (IHS) receives conflict information from a population of digital video recorder (DVR) IHSs. The conflict information indicates that a conflictee show is in conflict with a conflictor show in a DVR IHS. The conflict information may include a conflictee show identifier and open timeslots for each DVR IHS that transmits conflict information to the CA IHS. Using the conflictee show identifier and available timeslots received from the population of DVR IHSs, the CA IHS makes a recommendation to rebroadcast the conflictee show at a particular time when more than an predetermined threshold number of DVR IHSs are available to record a rebroadcast of the conflictee show.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a conflict analysis (CA) information handling system (IHS), conflict information from a plurality of digital video recorder (DVR) IHSs, the conflict information indicating that a particular show is in conflict with another show; and generating, by the conflict analysis IHS, a recommendation to rebroadcast the particular show in response to the conflict information received from the plurality of DVR IHSs, wherein generating the recommendation to rebroadcast is further in response to determining that the number of conflicts for the particular show is greater than a predetermined threshold.