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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2006
Ian Shelton, Ringwood, GB;
James Geoffrey Walker, Guildford, GB;
Kevin Murray, Fordingbridge, GB;
Michael Costello, Middlesex, GB;
Nicholas Ashton Hall, Walton-on-Thames, GB;
Ian Shelton, Ringwood, GB;
James Geoffrey Walker, Guildford, GB;
Kevin Murray, Fordingbridge, GB;
Michael Costello, Middlesex, GB;
Nicholas Ashton Hall, Walton-on-Thames, GB;
NDS Limited, Staines, Middlesex, GB;
Abstract
A system for displaying electronic program guide information about a plurality of video items on a screen, the system including a display module to display a plurality of pages layering into the screen, each of the pages including a plurality of graphical panels associated with the video items, and a user input module to receive a user input to turn at least one of the pages such that the at least one page is peeled away from other ones of the pages in order to bring the graphical panels of the at least one page in or out of view, wherein the display module is operative to show the turning of the at least one page bringing the at least one page in or out of view. Related apparatus and methods are also described.