公开(公告)号：US08250614B1

公开(公告)日：2012-08-21

申请号：US11394634

申请日：2006-03-31

申请人： Michael D. Ellis ,  William L. Thomas ,  Matthew Scott Reichardt ,  Simo Elkhadiri ,  Kevin Kershaw

发明人： Michael D. Ellis ,  William L. Thomas ,  Matthew Scott Reichardt ,  Simo Elkhadiri ,  Kevin Kershaw

IPC分类号： H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44218 ,  H04N21/47202

摘要： A media-on-demand (MOD) portal application allows users to view and access from a single display interface MOD content provided by multiple media providers, such as vendors and service providers. The MOD portal application may provide grid display screens showing program listings of available media content. The grids may include rows and columns, where each row and each column includes program listings associated with a particular category. In one illustrative grid, each row includes programming from a single media vendor and each column includes programming of a particular genre. A media guidance application is also provided which automatically determines if a user does not watch an MOD program the user has ordered. The media guidance application may automatically make the unwatched program available to the user at a later time, for example by automatically recording the program or by allowing the user to access the program at the later time.

摘要翻译： 媒体点播（MOD）门户应用程序允许用户从单个显示界面查看和访问由多个媒体提供商（如供应商和服务提供商）提供的MOD内容。 MOD门户应用程序可以提供显示可用媒体内容的节目列表的网格显示屏幕。 网格可以包括行和列，其中每行和每列包括与特定类别相关联的节目列表。 在一个说明性网格中，每行包括来自单个媒体供应商的编程，并且每列包括特定类型的编程。 还提供了一种媒体引导应用程序，用于自动确定用户是否不观看用户已订购的MOD程序。 媒体引导应用程序可以在稍后的时间自动地使未被修剪的程序可用于用户，例如通过自动记录程序或者允许用户在稍后的时间访问该程序。