CLIENT-SERVER BASED INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH REMOTE SERVER RECORDING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interactive television program guide system, and causes the interactive television program guide to provide an opportunity to select a plurality of programs to a plurality of users in order to record in a remote media server.

SOLUTION: The plurality of the programs may also be recorded in a local media server. The program guide provides VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) like control on the plurality of the programs reproduced from the media server and a copy of the plurality of the programs cashed in real time to a plurality of users. The program guide also provides opportunity to specify gift recipients who can record the plurality of the programs to the plurality of the users.

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