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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2001
Steven Lee Cooper, Jr., Whitestown, IN (US);
Mark Gilmore Mears, Zionsville, IN (US);
Steven Lee Cooper, Jr., Whitestown, IN (US);
Mark Gilmore Mears, Zionsville, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method and system for recording a program in an apparatus that has auxiliary programming information available are described. A program is first selected for recording. A determination is made to see whether the associated auxiliary programming information is available for the selected first program for recording. If the associated auxiliary programming information is not available for the selected first program, then a recording timer is automatically populated with all known recording parameters. All the unknown recording parameters in the recording timer are also populated according to a predetermined algorithm.