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CATV system with an easy program reservation

  • US 5,465,385 A
  • Filed: 02/23/1994
  • Issued: 11/07/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cable television (CATV) terminal apparatus for receiving a television signal transmitted from a CATV center facility and providing the received television signal to a television receiver (TV receiver), comprising:

  • means for displaying, on the TV receiver upon receiving a first instruction from a user, information indicating programs being broadcast and scheduled to be broadcast over a set of linked channels based on program data transmitted from the center facility wherein the linked channels are channels logically coupled to each other, the program data for each of said linked channels including titles, start times, lengths of the respective programs and linking information which identifies another one of said linked channels;

    means for receiving a second instruction indicating one of the programs that has been selected by the user;

    means for storing data indicating the start time, length and channel of the selected program; and

    means for automatically displaying, on the TV receiver based on the stored data, the selected program during a period defined by the start time and the length.

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