United Video Properties, Inc.

Telecommunications of Colorado, Inc.

News America Publications, Inc.

Rose A Reynolds

Michael D Ellis

Joel Gerard Hassell

Constance J Borges

Jeffrey A Ross

Dennis Tenney

Donald Rasson, Deceased

Robert R Predolich

Barry L Smith

Michael Dean Ellis

A system is provided for distributing television program guide data from a main facility to set-top boxes or similar receivers via local television systems. Program guide data is placed in a number of selectively configurable queues. The configuration of the queues is determined by queue configuration data that may be supplied by the operator of the main facility. The operator can readily reconfigure the queues by altering the queue configuration data. Program guide data from the queues may be distributed to the receivers using multiple feed generators, each of which distributes program guide data to receivers with different addresses. The feed generators determine which receivers are busy processing recently transmitted data, so that data may be directed toward receivers that are not currently busy.

Program guide data distribution system with configurable queues

A system and method for localizing an aggregated electronic program guide (EPG) schedule covering a plurality of service environments includes an information filter located at the subscriber's set-top box conditioned to recognize which schedule information is relevant to the viewer's service environment. Only schedule information corresponding to the viewer's own service environment is stored in the EPG's schedule database. The result is an electronic program schedule that is tailored to the viewer's specific service environment without the use of costly equipment on the transmission side of the program schedule feed.

Electronic program guide schedule localization system and method

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Rose A Reynolds