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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2002
Hiroshi Matoba, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Nishibayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Onodera, Tokyo, JP;
Akihisa Kenmochi, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetaka Hane, Tokyo, JP;
Jun-ichi Yamato, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Matoba, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Nishibayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Onodera, Tokyo, JP;
Akihisa Kenmochi, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetaka Hane, Tokyo, JP;
Jun-Ichi Yamato, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A broadcast storage system is disclosed which is easily controllable by the user for setting programs for timer recording and playing back recorded programs. The broadcast storage system has one or more slave apparatus and a master apparatus. The master apparatus grasps programs set for timer recording by each of the slave apparatus. When a program to be recorded is determined by the user or an automatic timer recording process, the master apparatus selects an apparatus to record the program such that a plurality of timer recording settings are not made at one time in one apparatus, and instructs the selected apparatus to set the program for timer recording. When instructed to set the program for timer recording, a slave apparatus sets the program for timer recording, and records the program at the time when the program is broadcast.