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AssigneeUnited Video Properties, Inc.
InventorsThomas R Lemmons, Donald W Allison, Jerry D Henshaw, Connie T Marshall
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Interactive program guide systems and related processes are provided which can automatically tune a television, or program a VCR, based on program selections made from program schedule information displayed on a television or other suitable video monitor. The interactive program guide is preferably implemented using a microprocessor-controlled set-top box that is coupled to the viewer's television set. The set-top box receives program schedule information and software from a headend telecasting center. Preferably, program schedule information for the current day and at least six subsequent days is stored in a memory within the set-top box. The interactive program guide provides a display mode for allowing the viewer to apply a restrictive search selection criterion and a nonrestrictive sort attribute to the program schedule information.
A method for controlling a first tuner and a second tuner with an interactive television program guide, said method comprising:
User equipment having an interactive television program guide implemented thereon, said user equipment comprising a display device, a first tuner, a second tuner, a memory, a set-top box, and a video recorder, said interactive television program guide configured to:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium for an interactive television program guide that controls a first tuner and a second tuner, said machine-readable medium having machine program logic recorded thereon for:
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