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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2004
Patrick Young, San Mateo, CA (US);
John H Roop, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael W Faber, Pleasonton, CA (US);
Patrick Young, San Mateo, CA (US);
John H Roop, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael W Faber, Pleasonton, CA (US);
Starsight Telecast, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Screen for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array of irregular cells, which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The array is arranged as three columns of one-half hour in duration, and twelve rows of program listings. Some of the program listings overlap two or more of the columns because of their length. Because of the widely varying length of the cells, if a conventional cursor used to select a cell location were to simply step from one cell to another, the result would be abrupt changes in the screen as the cursor moved from a cell of several hours length to an adjacent cell in the same row.