Interactive television program guide with selectable non-program options

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6061097
SERIAL NO

08858984

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An interactive program guide system is provided. The program guide system displays a program guide grid on a user's television equipment. The grid contains rows of television program listings for various channels. Columns in the grid are associated with the scheduled start times of the listed programs. The grid also contains non-program listings. Non-program listings rows contain selectable non-program options, such as options related to weather or sports information. The user can select a given one of the selectable non-program options by positioning a highlight region on one of the options and pressing an appropriate key on a remote control. When the system receives the corresponding command from the remote control, the system displays additional information for the selected non-program option on the user's display screen.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • ROVI GUIDES, INC.;PREVUE INTERNATIONAL, INC.;TV GUIDE NETWORKS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Satterfield, Kevin D Mannford, OK 26 2403

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