公开(公告)号：US20060026643A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-02

申请号：US10900947

申请日：2004-07-28

申请人： Eric Silverberg ,  Alan Shield ,  Christopher Pezzee ,  Glenn Curtis ,  Shawn Pickett ,  Thaddeus Pritchett ,  Mark Schwesinger

发明人： Eric Silverberg ,  Alan Shield ,  Christopher Pezzee ,  Glenn Curtis ,  Shawn Pickett ,  Thaddeus Pritchett ,  Mark Schwesinger

IPC分类号： H04N5/445 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F3/00

CPC分类号： H04N5/44543 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4332 ,  H04N21/4345 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/4821

摘要： Various embodiments provide accurate EPG lineup construction and PVR scheduling for users, regardless of their geographic location. In accordance with the described embodiments, the guide retrieves and aggregates data from multiple available sources, particularly in-band scanning and EPG metadata download. Services are then identified and sorted into logically equivalent groups. Once the services are grouped, in accordance with one embodiment, an analysis is conducted the outcome of which is directed to selecting which services to use for tuning and which services to use for scheduling on a given channel/preset. In addition, various embodiments can, in an automated fashion, assign services to presets/channels, as well as provide a user interface and methods for editing a lineup, modifying tuning information and personalizing presets/channels.