PVR channel and PVR IPG information

• US 10,412,439 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2012
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Russ, Samuel H., Gaul, Michael A., Kaminski, Dariusz S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce, Jason P
• Application Number:
  US13/471,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20120227072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,674 Days
• Field of Search: 725 45- 47, 725 58
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction

Abstract

A system that maps media content information to an interactive program guide displayed on a screen includes, among other things, a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to display at least one personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide. The processor is further preferably configured with the logic to display media content instance listings in the personal video recording display channel for corresponding media content instance recordings.

Claims

1. A method for mapping media content information to an interactive program guide display, the method comprising:

recording a media content instance on a storage device of a digital home communication terminal device, the recorded media content instance listed as a personal video recording in a personal video recording display channel;

displaying the personal video recording display channel via an output system of the digital home communication terminal device that drives a display device, the personal video recording display channel included in the display of an interactive program guide, the interactive program guide comprising a plurality of channels identifying media content listings corresponding to future broadcasts of media content instances and in-progress broadcasts of media content instances and including a time area display section;

enabling a configuration of the time area display section of the interactive program guide displayed via the output system for the display device, wherein the configuration comprises altering the time area display section of the interactive program guide while displaying the plurality of channels in the interactive program guide to depict a scrolling ticker banner upon highlighting the recorded media content instance on the personal video recording display channel; and

selecting the recorded media content instance highlighted in the personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide, accessing the recorded media content instance from the storage device, and playing back the recorded media content instance on the display device via the output system of the digital home communication terminal device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration further comprises altering the time display area section of the interactive program guide to depict an index number corresponding to a number for a recorded sequence of the recorded media content instance.

3. An apparatus comprising:

a communication interface of a digital communication terminal device to receive media content and program guide information relating to the media content;

a storage device to record a media content instance, the recorded media content instance listed as a personal video recording in a personal video recording display channel;

an output interface to drive an external display; and

a processor configured to;

drive the output interface providing display information comprising an interactive program guide including the personal video recording display channel, the interactive program guide further including a plurality of channels identifying media content listings corresponding to future broadcasts of media content instances and in-progress broadcasts of media content instances and including a time area display section;

configure the time area display section in the interactive program guide wherein the time area display section of the interactive program guide is configured while displaying the plurality of channels in the interactive program guide to depict a scrolling ticker banner displayed upon highlighting of the recorded media content instance on the personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide;

retrieve the highlighted recorded media content instance from the storage device after the highlighted recorded media content instance is selected; and

drive the output interface providing display content for the retrieved recorded media content instance to the external display.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the communication interface is a network interface to a headend providing the media content and the program guide information.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the output interface drives an interface to a television as a display device.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to alter the time area display section of the interactive program guide to depict an index number corresponding to a number for a recorded sequence of the recorded media content instance.