Method and apparatus for generating television program guides with category selection overlay

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5694176
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08610096

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An apparatus for generating an on-screen television program guide. The apparatus generates a main menu of a program guide, which includes program source information and program event information for a plurality of program sources, and further generates navigation menus for allowing a viewer to modify the program guide. The navigation menus are generated so as to over-write only a portion of the main menu of the program guide.

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  • HUGHES ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bruette, Jeff Germantown, MD 5 559
Martz, Ellen Gaithersburg, MD 3 365
Mohebbi, Matthew North Potomac, MD 9 769

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