System and method for presenting program guide information in an electronic portable device
First Claim
1. A method for providing to a controlling device personalized program guide information, comprising:
- receiving from a server device via a communications network program guide data;
using personal preferences to filter the received program guide data;
causing filtered, received program guide data to be displayed within a display of the controlling device; and
causing the controlling device to use supplemental media data to dynamically highlight at least one icon within the filtered, received program guide data when the filtered, received program guide data is caused to be displayed within the display of the controlling device wherein the at least one icon is activable to cause the controlling device to issue one or more commands to cause at least one appliance to access media corresponding to the supplemental media data.
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Abstract
A controlling device is provided with the ability to present personalized program guide information by using personal preferences provided to a home computing device. The personal preferences are used to filter program guide data received at the home computing device whereby the program guide data will include only programming information for user-specified sources of programming for each of plural, different user-specified periods of time. The filtered program guide data is then downloaded to the controlling device from the home computing device for use in connection with an application of the controlling device that functions to display program guide information within a display of the controlling device.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for providing to a controlling device personalized program guide information, comprising:
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receiving from a server device via a communications network program guide data; using personal preferences to filter the received program guide data; causing filtered, received program guide data to be displayed within a display of the controlling device; and causing the controlling device to use supplemental media data to dynamically highlight at least one icon within the filtered, received program guide data when the filtered, received program guide data is caused to be displayed within the display of the controlling device wherein the at least one icon is activable to cause the controlling device to issue one or more commands to cause at least one appliance to access media corresponding to the supplemental media data. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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2. A system, comprising:
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a controlling device having a display and programming used to display program guide information within the display; a server device having an associated database of network program guide data; and a home computing device in communication with the server device and the controlling device, the home computing device having programming that uses personal preferences provided to the home computing device to filter program guide data received from the database via the server device whereby the program guide data will include only programming information for user-specified sources of programming for each of plural, different user-specified periods of time and that causes the filtered, received program guide data to be downloaded to the controlling device whereby the downloaded, filtered, received program guide data is available for use by the programming of the controlling device to thereby display personalized program guide information within the display of the controlling device and wherein the controlling device uses supplemental media data to dynamically highlight at least one icon within the personalized program guide information when the personalized program guide information is caused to be displayed within the display of the controlling device and the at least one icon is activable to cause the controlling device to issue one or more commands to cause at least one appliance to access media corresponding to the supplemental media data.
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8. A system, comprising:
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a controlling device having a display and programming used to display program guide information within the display; a server device having an associated database of network program guide data; and a home computing device in communication with the server device and the controlling device, the home computing device having programming that uses personal preferences provided to the home computing device for each of a plurality of users separately identifiable to the controlling device to filter program guide data received from the database via the server device whereby the program guide data will include only programming information for user-specified sources of programming for each of plural, different user-specified periods of time for each of the plurality of users and that causes the filtered, received program guide data to be downloaded to the controlling device whereby the downloaded, filtered, received program guide data is available for use by the programming of the controlling device to display personalized program guide information within the display of the controlling device for each of the plurality of users when each of the plurality of users is accordingly identified to the controlling device and wherein the controlling device uses supplemental media data to dynamically highlight at least one icon within the personalized program guide information when the personalized program guide information is caused to be displayed within the display of the controlling device and the at least one icon is activable to cause the controlling device to issue one or more commands to cause at least one appliance to access media corresponding to the supplemental media data. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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