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Program guide system with combination category search

  • US 7,603,685 B2
  • Filed: 10/19/2005
  • Issued: 10/13/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An interactive television program guide system in which an interactive television program guide is at least partially implemented on user equipment of a user, comprising:

  • means for supplying program listings to the interactive television program guide;

    means for supplying information on certain simple categories of programming and certain combination categories of programming that are associated with the program listings;

    means for providing an option to simultaneously display the simple categories and the combination categories;

    means for simultaneously displaying, in response to a user selection of the option, both the simple categories and the combination categories in a selectable list on the user equipment with the interactive television program guide, wherein the combination categories comprise more than one simple category and are selectable using a single selection; and

    means for searching for program listings with the interactive television program guide that match a category selected from the selectable list by the user and displaying the matching program listings with the interactive television program guide on the user equipment.

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