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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2007
Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Blackburn, Newcastle, WA (US);
David A. Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neha Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Gordhan Patel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehran Sahami, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel John Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Blackburn, Newcastle, WA (US);
David A. Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neha Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Gordhan Patel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehran Sahami, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel John Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing listings of multimedia events and for allowing a user to create virtual channels from the listings is described. The user can specify a headend or zip code and enter a search query to find multimedia events that are of interest to the user. In response, the system provides a list of multimedia events as the results of the user's search query. If the user so desires, the user can create a virtual channel based on the search results, according to certain embodiments of the invention.