Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc.

James A Chiddix

Louis Dew Williamson

John Callahan

John B Carlucci

Michael T Hayashi

Joseph G Buehl

Robert Benya

Steven A Johnson

Kevin J Leddy

David McElhatten

Marc J Apfelbaum

Live television broadcast and other information and entertainment programs, e.g., videos-on-demand (VOD), are provided to a user through a communications network, e.g., a cable network. A processing unit is employed at an headend of the communications network to respond to user requests for PVR-like functions, e.g., pausing, rewinding and fast-forwarding, to be performed on the program content being viewed. The processing unit in accordance with the invention causes a delivery of an appropriate version of the program content to meet such user requests.

Network based digital information and entertainment storage and delivery system

In a broadband communications system, e.g., a cable system, programming content can be readily reserved and accessed for viewing using interactive program guides in accordance with the invention. Such programming content may include in-progress programs, future programs and previously broadcast programs which are recorded at a headend in the cable system, and which may or may not have overlapping broadcast times. In addition, the user may reserve programs at a set-top terminal, and may also do so remotely from the terminal through a communications network such as, the Internet, a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a wireless telephone network, etc.

Program guide and reservation system for network based digital information and entertainment storage and delivery system

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James A Chiddix