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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
May. 10, 2004
Howard Look, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Vallone, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Avraham Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karen Bedard, San Jose, CA (US);
Wijnand Van Stam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ain Mckendrick, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Howard Look, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Vallone, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Avraham Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karen Bedard, San Jose, CA (US);
Wijnand Van Stam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ain McKendrick, Menlo Park, CA (US);
TiVo Inc., Alviso, CA (US);
Abstract
A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. A banner is displayed in the upper region of the screen and the user can rotate through three different levels of banners, each successively containing more information about the program.