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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2000
Yuko S. Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
Aaron John Dew, San Diego, CA (US);
Ronaldo Diaz, San Diego, CA (US);
Jenny Su Chow, San Diego, CA (US);
Yuko S. Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
Aaron John Dew, San Diego, CA (US);
Ronaldo Diaz, San Diego, CA (US);
Jenny Su Chow, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an entertainment system and method for selectively storing broadcast channels by the entertainment system. To store a broadcast channel, the system first receives programming data associated with the channel. A show associated with the channel is displayed and a menu associated with the storing of the channel in memory may also be displayed. The viewer may then select to add to or remove from memory the programming data associated with the currently tuned channel via a one-step process, and the programming data is subsequently loaded into the memory.