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US 2006/0218584 A1Published application
Filtering electronic program guides based on channel accessibility
AssigneePioneer Research Center USA, Inc.
InventorJohn Gildred
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Abstract
A method of filtering an electronic program guide (EPG) information is disclosed. EPG information is retrieved from an EPG provider. The EPG information is filtered to retain program information related to programs delivered by a content delivery provider to a subscriber. The content delivery provider is different from the EPG provider.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- retrieving electronic program guide (EPG) information from an EPG provider;
- and
- filtering the EPG information to retain program information related to programs delivered by a content delivery provider to a subscriber, the content delivery provider being different from the EPG provider.
An article of manufacture comprising:
- a machine-accessible medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving electronic program guide (EPG) information from an EPG provider;
- and
- filtering the EPG information to retain program information related to programs delivered by a content delivery provider to a subscriber, the content delivery provider being different from the EPG provider.
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A program guide module comprising:
- an electronic program guide (EPG) module to store EPG information from an EPG provider;
- and
- an enhanced EPG module coupled to the EPG module, the enhanced EPG module comprising:
- a module to retrieve the EPG information from the EPG module, and
- a module to filter the EPG information to retain program information related to programs delivered by a content delivery provider to a subscriber, the content delivery provider being different from the EPG provider.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.