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Television and multimedia viewing paradigm

  • US 7,093,273 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2005
  • Issued: 08/15/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An arrangement comprising:

  • means for automatically selecting a candidate program to record;

    means for identifying the candidate program in a first part of a time-dependent buffer arrangement, to provide candidate information;

    means for recording content associated with the selected candidate program;

    means for identifying the recorded content in a second part of the time-dependent buffer arrangement to provide recorded program information, wherein the candidate information and the recorded program information define program-related information;

    wherein the arrangement is configured such that program-related information advances through the time-dependent buffer arrangement in the manner of a shift register, wherein an order of program-related information in the time-dependent buffer arrangement defines a temporal order for presenting programs corresponding to the program-related information to a consumer; and

    means for presenting a stream of programs to the consumer based on the temporal order.

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