Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1995-04-06
1999-03-09
Grant, Chris
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 10, 348906, 455 62, H04N 716
Patent
active
058807683
ABSTRACT:
Interactive program guide systems and related processes are provided which can automatically tune a television, or program a VCR, based on program selections made from program schedule information displayed on a television or other suitable video monitor. The interactive program guide is preferably implemented using a microprocessor-controlled set-top box that is coupled to the viewer's television set. The set-top box receives program schedule information and software from a headend telecasting center. Preferably, program schedule information for the current day and at least six subsequent days is stored in a memory within the set-top box. The interactive program guide provides a display mode for allowing the viewer to apply a restrictive search selection criterion and a nonrestrictive sort attribute to the program schedule information.
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Allison Donald W.
Henshaw Jerry D.
Lemmons Thomas R.
Marshall Connie T.
Byrne Matthew T.
Grant Chris
Guiliano Joseph M.
Prevue Networks, Inc.
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