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Program guide system with flip and browse advertisements

  • US 6,564,379 B1
  • Filed: 04/30/1998
  • Issued: 05/13/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system in which an interactive television program guide is implemented on user television equipment comprising:

  • means for providing a program guide screen with the interactive television program guide that contains video for a given channel;

    means for providing a program listings display region in the program guide screen that contains a program listing for a single channel and an advertisement, wherein the program listings display region is one of a browse display and a flip display;

    means for overlaying the program listings display region on the video for the given channel;

    means for providing a highlight; and

    means for providing a user with the ability to navigate the highlight from the program listing to the advertisement.

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