US Patent No: 7,200,611
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TV program database
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Apr 3, 2007
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May 13, 2002
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10/145,461
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Abstract
Before a programming guide is created, a unique code is assigned to each TV program that can be identified in the programming guide. Prior to the creation of the programming guide, a viewer selects the unique code corresponding to the TV show that the viewer would like to record whenever that TV show is broadcast. When the programming guide is created, the corresponding unique codes are associated with each TV program in the programming guide. The TV program corresponding to the viewer-selected unique code is then scheduled to be recorded in accordance with the announced broadcast schedule in the programming guide. A recording is made of the TV program corresponding to the viewer-selected unique code as the TV program is broadcast in accordance with the announced broadcast schedule in the programming guide.
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| 5,880,720 Television system for providing interactive television programs and server system for constructing the television system | 96 | 1996 | |
| 6,289,169 Apparatus and method of displaying recording | 32 | 1999 | |
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| 2003/0051,252 Method, system, and apparatus for acquiring information concerning broadcast information | 32 | 2002 | |
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| 5,949,492 Apparatus and methods for accessing information relating to radio television programs | 96 | 1997 | |
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| 2003/0206,710 Audiovisual management system | 11 | 2001 | |
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| 2002/0150,387 Information processing system, portable information terminal apparatus, information processing method, program information providing apparatus, program information providing method, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, computer-program storage medium, and computer program | 24 | 2002 | |
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| 4,706,121 TV schedule system and process | 909 | 1986 | |
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| 2003/0067,554 System and method for personalized TV | 161 | 2001 | |
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| 6,233,734 System and method for controlling the broadcast and recording of television programs and for distributing information to be displayed on a television screen | 33 | 1999 | |
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