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Scheduler apparatus employing a gopher agent for use in a television receiver

  • US 8,776,138 B2
  • Filed: 05/08/2012
  • Issued: 07/08/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for processing channel guide information, comprising the steps of:

  • receiving channel guide information;

    receiving, by a processor a user typed text string search request;

    performing a search of said channel guide information using said contents of said search request for a program in said channel guide information having program description that satisfies said user-entered request;

    recording automatically without user intervention, a program which is found in said performing step having program description that satisfies said user-entered request;

    wherein at least two different video programs with different program titles are recorded in view of said same search request; and

    one of the at least two different programs has the search request matching part of title information of a first program and a second program from said at least two different programs has the search request matching part of at least one of;

    star information, director information, rating information, and plot information, where the matching of said second program search request is not found in said title of said second program.

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