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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2022
Applicant:

Dish Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventor:

Gregory H. Greene, Englewood, CO (US);

Assignee:

DISH Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/42216 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/45 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

A set-top box or other receiving device may detect such channels that the EPG cursor visits frequently, visits for relatively long periods of time or that are frequently displayed on the screen in the electronic program guide (EPG), or otherwise frequently visited or viewed. The system determines that such channels are those that the user is likely to return to when browsing the EPG in the future and then adapts the EPG to present such channels on top of the EPG together with each other separately from the other full list of channels presented in the. This may be performed each time the EPG is opened. A customized EPG having the particular group of channels presented according a specific identified user's previous channel browsing activity may also be generated.


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