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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsStephen B. Boston, Michael Wayne Brown, Andrew Douglas Hately, Michael A. Paolini
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An on-screen program menu that displays available programs sorted, or grouped, by a display order (i.e., a ranking) is provided. Program listings are ranked by the user of a digital video recorder. These rankings are combined with sponsorship rankings to determine the resulting display order. The program listings can correspond to programs available for viewing or recording as well as programs that have already been recorded by the user's digital video recorder. The resulting display orders the programs by their overall rank. Programs are displayed in groups. When an event occurs, the next group of programs is displayed. The digital video recorder keeps track of programs that the user selects from the on-screen menu and sends the information, along with the user's demographic information, back to the DVR service provider. The DVR service provider creates reports for sponsors showing programs that were performed by different groups of people.
A method for displaying an on-screen program menu, said method comprising:
An information handling system comprising:
A computer program product stored in a computer operable media for displaying an on-screen program menu, said computer program product comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.