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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2002
David Mcelhatten, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Steven Johnson, Pasadena, CA (US);
John W. Callahan, Broomfield, CO (US);
Marc J. Apfelbaum, New York, NY (US);
Robert Benya, Breezy Point, NY (US);
Louis D. Williamson, Denver, CO (US);
James A. Chiddix, New York, NY (US);
David McElhatten, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Steven Johnson, Pasadena, CA (US);
John W. Callahan, Broomfield, CO (US);
Marc J. Apfelbaum, New York, NY (US);
Robert Benya, Breezy Point, NY (US);
Louis D. Williamson, Denver, CO (US);
James A. Chiddix, New York, NY (US);
Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
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.