Methods and systems for integrating provisional services in an electronic program guide environment
    1.
    发明申请
    Methods and systems for integrating provisional services in an electronic program guide environment 审中-公开
    在电子节目指南环境中整合临时服务的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20060026641A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-02-02

    申请号:US10929338

    申请日:2004-08-30

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

    摘要: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In one embodiment, a user can access programs within a particular program type in an electronic program guide and select programs that are not available via a current electronic program guide. If programs are available from one or more provisional sources, the user can acquire one or more program. In other embodiments, electronic program guide data is processed to identify movies within the guide data. A user can then browse a collection movies some of which are available via an associated electronic program guide and others of which are not available via the electronic program guide. For movies that are not available via the electronic program guide, a client device can ascertain whether such movies are available from a provisional service source.

    摘要翻译: 描述使用户能够查找和查看程序的方法和系统。 在一个实施例中,用户可以访问电子节目指南中的特定节目类型中的节目,并且选择通过当前电子节目指南不可用的节目。 如果节目可以从一个或多个临时来源获得,则用户可以获取一个或多个节目。 在其他实施例中,处理电子节目指南数据以识别指南数据内的电影。 然后,用户可以浏览收集电影,其中一些电影可通过相关的电子节目指南获得,而其他电影节不能通过电子节目指南获得。 对于通过电子节目指南不可用的电影,客户端设备可以确定这样的电影是否可以从临时服务来源获得。

    Interactive program information page and related methods
    2.
    发明申请
    Interactive program information page and related methods 审中-公开
    交互式节目信息页面及相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US20060026639A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-02-02

    申请号:US10929347

    申请日:2004-08-30

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

    摘要: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In at least some embodiments, an interactive program information page enables links to be created between local electronic program guide data that resides on the client device and data that resides remotely from the client device. In at least one embodiment, the interactive program information page enables a user to make selections which can both (1) execute remote queries of data that resides remotely using data returned from a local query of local electronic program guide data, and (2) execute local queries of local electronic program guide data using data returned from a remote query of the data that resides remotely.

    摘要翻译: 描述使用户能够查找和查看程序的方法和系统。 在至少一些实施例中,交互式节目信息页面使得能够在驻留在客户端设备上的本地电子节目指南数据与远离客户端设备的数据之间创建链接。 在至少一个实施例中,交互式节目信息页面使得用户能够进行选择,其可以(1)使用从本地电子节目指南数据的本地查询返回的数据来执行远程驻留的数据的远程查询,以及(2)执行 本地电子节目的本地查询使用从远程查询的远程查询返回的数据。

    Program portals and methods and systems for finding and viewing programs
    3.
    发明申请
    Program portals and methods and systems for finding and viewing programs 审中-公开
    用于查找和查看程序的程序门户和方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20060026635A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-02-02

    申请号:US10909808

    申请日:2004-07-30

    IPC分类号: H04N5/445 H04N7/16 H04N5/44

    摘要: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In one embodiment, a program-viewing portal application executes on a client device and is configured to enable a user to access programs within a particular program type, and to view, as part of a program selection process, non-textual images associated with individual programs within the particular program type. In one implementation, the program-viewing portal application comprises a movie portal application that presents, as part of the user's selection process, movie cover art that enables the user to browse movies that are currently playing or will be playing shortly, and to view movies sorted in accordance with their genre and/or rating.

    摘要翻译: 描述使用户能够查找和查看程序的方法和系统。 在一个实施例中,程序浏览门户应用程序在客户端设备上执行并且被配置为使得用户能够访问特定程序类型中的程序,并且作为程序选择过程的一部分来查看与个体相关联的非文本图像 特定程序类型内的程序。 在一个实现中,节目观看门户应用包括电影门户应用,作为用户选择过程的一部分,呈现使得用户能够浏览正在播放或将要短暂播放的电影并观看电影的电影封面艺术 根据他们的流派和/或等级排序。

    Automatically generated TV favorites list
    4.
    发明申请
    Automatically generated TV favorites list 有权
    自动生成的电视收藏列表

    公开(公告)号:US20070118848A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-24

    申请号:US11283153

    申请日:2005-11-18

    IPC分类号: H04H9/00 H04N7/16

    摘要: A favorite channel list for a media system is generated by observing the viewing, surfing, and recording habits of a user. The viewing habits may include the duration and frequency of viewing a channel. A user's surfing habits, including navigation habits of a guide, the method used for navigation to a channel, and information queries made during a surfing session may be used to determine which channels may be added to a favorites list. When the user has an ability to record a program and view the program later, the user's behavior in selecting programs for recording, and the behaviors of playing back and archiving recorded shows may also be used to identify favorite channels. In some embodiments, the favorites list may be customized for a user or node of a playback system, as well as time of day.

    摘要翻译: 通过观察用户的观看,冲浪和记录习惯来生成媒体系统的喜爱的频道列表。 观看习惯可以包括观看频道的持续时间和频率。 用户的冲浪习惯,包括导航的导航习惯,用于导航到频道的方法以及在冲浪会话期间进行的信息查询可以用于确定哪些频道可以被添加到收藏夹列表。 当用户能够稍后记录节目并查看节目时,用户选择录制节目的行为以及播放和归档记录节目的行为也可用于识别喜爱的频道。 在一些实施例中,可以为回放系统的用户或节点以及一天中的时间来定制收藏夹列表。