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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 06, 2013
United Video Properties, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Joel G. Hassell, Arvada, CO (US);
Edward B. Knudson, Lakewood, CO (US);
L. Joe Hedges, Tulsa, OK (US);
Michael D. Ellis, Boulder, CO (US);
David M. Berezowski, Tulsa, OK (US);
United Video Properties, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An interactve television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage ad maintain a user media library to do the same. Non-time-sensitive data associated with recorded programs may be stored in a way that allows the user to interact with the data on playback as if the program were being originally aired. The program guide also allows the user to define 'super-programs'for playback of a sequence of stored programs or program segments.