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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8091102 | Methods and systems that motivate tuning to a transmission channel for a time period Systems and methods are provided for motivating a user to watch a television channel for a predetermined period of time and enabling access to a media asset related to a program provided on the channel. A tuner is tuned to a transmission channel and a program is rec... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7984468 | Systems and methods for providing program suggestions in an interactive television program guide An interactive television program guide application is provided that queries a user regarding the user's interest in television programs and suggests television programs to the user based on the user's responses. The interactive television program guide application ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7930719 | Interactive television program guide with selectable languages An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and displaying program guide text. Television program audio in the desired lang... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7840977 | Interactive media guidance system having multiple devices When selecting a television program for recording, a user may configure the delivery of the selected television program and associated data and interactive applications to different user equipment devices in a home network, which may have different capabilities. Bec... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7823177 | Electronic program guide with blackout features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7774812 | Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7673314 | Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7650621 | Systems and methods for providing storage of data on servers in an on-demand media delivery system A system and method may be provided that allows users to store, retrieve, and manipulate on-demand media content and data stored on a remote server network in an on-demand media delivery system. More particularly, the system may allow a user to access his or her on-... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7603690 | Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7562377 | Interactive program guide navigator menu system An interactive program guide system is provided. The program guide system has a logically flat navigator menu structure made up of program guide categories and selectable program guide options. Program guide categories correspond to fairly broad groups of program gu... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7523477 | Electronic program guide with blackout recording features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7503055 | Systems and methods for advertising television networks, channels, and programs The present invention allows control of the presentation of advertisements that are associated with television networks, channels, and programs, and enables a single broadcasting of each advertisement associated with a network to be made to numerous television syste... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7493646 | Interactive television systems with digital video recording and adjustable reminders An interactive television system is provided in which an interactive television application is used to support network-based or local personal video recorder capabilities. A user may use this application to view lists of program listings. The user may select a progr... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493643 | Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer may use the program guide display to browse available video-on-demand (... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487528 | Program guide system with browsing display An inter pap active television program guide system is provided in which a user may direct the program guide to display a browsing display screen. The browsing display screen includes a list of current programs including a movable highlight region, a video window co... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487527 | Interactive television program guide with selectable languages An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and displaying program guide text. Television program audio in the desired lang... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7398541 | Electronic television program guide schedule system and method Systems and methods are provided for displaying promotional information on a display on which program listings information is displayed. In some embodiments, the promotional information and the program listings information may be displayed simultaneously with video ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386871 | Program guide system with real-time data sources A program guide system is provided in which an interactive television program guide that is implemented at least partially on user television equipment receives program listings data and real-time data such as sports scores, news data, and the like. The real-time da... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385586 | Systems and methods for presenting an interactive user interface A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays portions of a scroll program guide on the. Viewer's display screen. A tuner receives TV radio frequency or optical transmission signals in a plurality of cable channels and passes a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370343 | Electronic program guide with blackout features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7322038 | Program guide system for recording television programs An interactive program guide system is provided. The system facilitates recording of programs selected from the program guide. The system handles the recording and viewing of pay programs, parentally-controlled programs, consecutive programs on different television ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7293663 | Self-advancing literature display rack Improved apparatus and methods for increasing the utility and attractiveness of a literature display are provided. The improved apparatus include a literature rack that automatically advances the remaining copies of literature to the front of the literature rack whe... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293276 | Interactive television program guide for recording enhanced video content Interactive television systems and methods are provided for enhancing program guide content using recording and alert features for video related to promotions, advertisements, and other selectable displays presented in an interactive television application such as a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287267 | Program guide system with advertisements An interactive television program guide is provided in which advertisements may be displayed on program guide screens. Banner advertisements may be displayed above and below program listings. Panel advertisements may be provided adjacent to program listings. The adv... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7269838 | Internet television program guide system with embedded real-time data An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access television program listings containing embedded real-time data over an Internet communications link. The television program listing may be for a sporting even... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254823 | Apparatus and method for constrained selection of favorite channels An interactive program guide system is provided in which an interactive program guide is implemented on user multi-media equipment of a user for displaying programming for a plurality of channels on the user equipment, wherein each channel carries primarily one of a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7231175 | Music information system for obtaining information on a second music program while a first music program is played A television and music distribution system is provided. Music programs are distributed over a number of analog and digital music channels to a number of users for playing by their user music equipment. Music information on the music program currently broadcasted on ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225455 | Electronic television program guide schedule system and method Systems and methods are provided for using an electronic program guide application to access a non-program guide application. The electronic program guide application provides a program guide display from which a user can access the non-program guide application. Th... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7185355 | Program guide system with preference profiles An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a user may inform a program guide of the user's interests. Information on the user's interests may be stored in a preference profile. There may be more than one preference profile, each for a differ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7047547 | Electronic television program guide schedule system and method An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a television receiver to a selected one of the plurality of channels. A ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7039935 | Program guide system with flip and browse advertisements An interactive television program guide is provided in which advertisements may be displayed in program listings display regions on program guide screens. The program listings display regions may be browse displays or flip displays. The program guide screens contain... | 05/02/2006 |
