AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE SELECTION SYSTEM WITH FAST SEARCH, COMPACT PRESENTATION AND FLEXIBLE PROGAMMING CAPABILITIES

摘要

Patent AbstractTitle: An electronic program guide selection system with fast search, compact presentation and flexible programming capabilitiesABSTRACT The present invention aims to offer very fast ways to program timers for viewing or recording in digital broadcast equipment by the implementation of a fast title search incurrent and future electronic program guides with convenient user input of searched title name, or by using the current title when so requested, a new way to display the events of the program guide as well as the list of records in which identical titles are grouped by default, the possibility to automatically overwrite a previous record with the same name or to record separately events with the same name but a different content., and finally to let the automatic timer programming continue beyond the existing program guide, even when the equipment is set to standby. FIGURE 2