Program guide and reservation system for network based digital information and entertainment storage and delivery system

A method for allowing a user to reserve a broadcast program for subsequent review of content of the program, the method comprising:

• obtaining rights from a content provider to the content of the program;
• receiving, at a location remote from the user location, the content of the program from the content provider;
• substantially simultaneously recording the content of the program at, and broadcasting the content of the program from, the location remote from the user location;
• determining a duration after broadcast of the content of the program, at any point during which duration the broadcast program is accessible by a user, the duration being based on rights received by the content provider for permitting reservation of the broadcast program by one or more users for access at any point during a specified amount of time following broadcast of the program;
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• causing an identifier of the broadcast program to be available for selection by a user for the determined duration to reserve the program.

A system for facilitating a user at a user location to reserve a broadcast program, recorded and broadcast substantially simultaneously, for subsequent access to content thereof, the system comprising:

• an interface for receiving, at a location remote from the user location, from a content provider, content of a program to be broadcast;
• a server for recording the content of the program, the server being located remotely from the user location;
• a processor for determining a duration after broadcast of the content of the program, at any point during which duration the broadcast program is accessible by a user, the duration being based on rights received from the content provider for permitting reservation of the broadcast program by one or more users for access at any point during a specified amount of time following broadcast of the program;
• a processor for causing an identifier of the broadcast program to be available for selection by one or more users for the determined duration;
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• a mechanism for receiving a selection by a user of the identifier, access by the user to the recorded content of the broadcast program being allowed in response to the received selection.

A system for allowing a user to reserve a broadcast program for subsequent review of content of the program, rights being obtained from a content provider to the content of the program, the system comprising:

• an interface for receiving, at a location remote from the user location, from the content provider, the content of the program, the content of the program being substantially simultaneously broadcast from, and recorded at, the location remote from the user location;
• a processor for determining a duration after broadcast of the content of the program, at any point during which duration the broadcast program is accessible by a user, the duration being based on rights received from the content provider for permitting reservation of the broadcast program by one or more users for access at any point during a specified amount of time following broadcast of the program;
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• a processor for causing an identifier of the broadcast program to be available for selection by a user for the determined duration to reserve the program.