Electronic programming guide providing apparatus and method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsTae-young Song, Young-chul Sohn, Yong-jun Kim, Hyo-dae Kim
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Abstract
An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method to collectively manage broadcast content using stored EPG information are provided. The EPG providing apparatus includes a storing unit which stores broadcast content and EPG information, an EPG screen configuring unit which configures an EPG screen including information on past, current, and future broadcast content using the EPG information, and a control unit which collectively manages broadcast content provided on the EPG screen based on a user input signal.
Claims41
An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus comprising:
- a storing unit which stores broadcast content and EPG information;
- an EPG screen configuring unit which configures an EPG screen including information on past, current, and future broadcast content;
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- a control unit which collectively manages broadcast content provided on the EPG screen based on a user input signal for the broadcast content.
An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing method, comprising:
- storing broadcast content and EPG information;
- configuring an EPG screen including information on past, current, and future broadcast content using the EPG information;
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- collectively managing broadcast content provided on the EPG screen based on a user input signal for the broadcast content.
An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus for providing a video-on-demand (VOD) service using EPG information, the EPG providing apparatus comprising:
- a storing unit which stores broadcast content and EPG information;
- a control unit which receives a user input signal for selecting broadcast content, reads EPG information for the selected broadcast content from the storing unit, and generates a URL (uniform resource locator) using the read EPG information;
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- a communicating unit which receives a VOD service for the selected broadcast content from a VOD server that provides VOD services using the generated URL.
An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing method comprising:
- receiving a user input signal for selecting broadcast content;
- generating a uniform resource locator (URL) using EPG information for the selected broadcast content;
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- receiving a video-on-demand (VOD) service for the selected broadcast content from a VOD server that provides VOD services using the generated URL.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.