Method and apparatus for providing electronic program guide
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorZhang-hoon OH
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Abstract
Provided are a method and apparatus for generating an electronic program guide (EPG). A method of generating a personalized EPG includes receiving at least one first EPG of scheduled contents from a content provider, detecting whether there is recording information on each of the scheduled contents, generating a second EPG using the detected recording information on each of the scheduled contents and the at least one first EPG, and transmitting the second EPG to a server.
Claims27
A method of generating a personalized electronic program guide (EPG), the method comprising:
- receiving at least one first EPG of scheduled contents from a content provider;
- detecting whether there is recording information on each of the scheduled contents;
- generating a second EPG using the detected recording information and the at least one first EPG, if the recording information is detected;
- and
- transmitting the second EPG to a server.
An electronic program guide (EPG) generation apparatus for providing a personalized EPG, the apparatus comprising:
- a processing unit that receives at least one first EPG of scheduled contents from a content provider and detects whether there is recording information on each of the scheduled contents;
- an EPG generation unit that generates a second EPG using the detected recording information and the at least one first EPG, if the recording information is detected;
- and
- a transmission unit that transmits the second EPG to a server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.