Appeal No. 2003-0523
Application No. 09/100,952
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to method and apparatus for “reserve-recording” of a
television broadcast while a user views the program. According to appellants
(specification at 4, ll. 5-11), in the prior art a user must exit viewing of the broadcast to
enter information for the recording. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below.1
1. A method for reserve-recording a broadcast program during viewing by a
user, comprising the steps of:
(a) pre-storing program identification information contained in
broadcast signals of broadcast stations;
(b) selecting a given broadcast program for reserve-recording during
viewing of the given broadcast program;
(c) maintaining the viewing of the given broadcast program selected at
step (b) without interruption while reading program identification information
corresponding to the selected given broadcast program from the program
identification information pre-stored at step (a); and
(d) setting reserve-recording data using the program identification
information read at step (c).
The examiner relies on the following references:
Young et al. (Young) 5,479,266 Dec. 26, 1995
Lawler et al. (Lawler) 5,699,107 Dec. 16, 1997
(filed Apr. 10, 1996)
Yuen et al. (Yuen) 6,154,203 Nov. 28, 2000
(effectively filed May 4, 1998)
1 We note that the amendment to the claims filed August 23, 2001 has not been formally entered
in the file wrapper.
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