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Interactive electronic television program guide with database configurability

  • US 6,928,653 B1
  • Filed: 04/20/1998
  • Issued: 08/09/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An interactive television program guide system in which an interactive television program guide is implemented on user television equipment, comprising:

  • memory in the user television equipment, in which program guide data for use by the interactive television program guide and non-program guide applications are stored;

    means for determining the memory requirements of a non-program guide application that is not currently stored on the user television equipment;

    means for determining the amount of memory that will be available to the interactive television program guide after storing the non-program-guide application on the user television equipment;

    means for receiving information from a remote source on the amount of memory for the interactive television program guide to use to store the program guide data; and

    means for adjusting the amount of memory used by the interactive television program guide to store the program guide data based at least in part on the received information and the amount of memory available after storing the non-program guide application on the user television equipment.

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