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Consumer interface for a digital television system

  • US 5,642,153 A
  • Filed: 12/23/1994
  • Issued: 06/24/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A television system for receiving a plurality of digitally-encoded television programs, comprising:

  • means for selecting g desired one of said digitally-encoded television programs on a particular digital data transmission channel from a plurality of digital data transmission channels in response to a control signal, all of said data transmission channels also including television program schedule data for all of said data transmission channels, said television program Schedule data defining the relationship of each of said television programs to respective ones of said plurality of digital data transmission channels;

    user-operable data entry means for entering data;

    control means coupled to said selecting means and to said data entry means for generating said control signal in response to said user-entered data; and

    said control means selecting a desired one of said digitally-encoded television programs on a virtual channel from a plurality of virtual channels in response to said user-entered data, each virtual channel being subject to reassignment to a different one of said a plurality of digital data transmission channels.

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