Event overrun and downstream event shift technology
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorRichard Gong
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Abstract
Technology that allows the party who generates schedule information, e.g., television schedule information used as a basis for meta data, to easily and efficiently “overrun” a selected event by a user-defined number of minutes and also to select the number of downstream events that will be shifted as a result of the overrun is disclosed. Also, the end time of the overrunning and the start and end times of the user-selected number of downstream events can be automatically recalculated and rescheduled. The new start and end times can then be reviewed by the generating user before being committed to the meta data that will be included in the television signal, e.g., a digital multiplex television signal.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of automatically updating television schedule data for a plurality of serially-scheduled events telecast on the same channel, each event having a starting time and a duration, the method comprising:
- selecting a first one of said events that will extend beyond a scheduled duration thereof;
- identifying a second one of said events as being the last one of a subset of said events for which starting times will be effected by the overrun of said first event;
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- automatically updating schedule information data for each of said subset of events based upon information about said overrun.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.