Television system with aided user program searching
CA 2673308 C · Owner: Prevue Networks, Inc. · Inventors: Boyer, Franklin E.; Demers, Timothy B.
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A system having an adaptive browse feature and an adaptive flip feature is provided. The adaptive browse and flip features may be selected to receive program viewing suggestions. The system may provide a suggestion by displaying an adaptive browse region or adaptative flip region including a program suggestion. The system identifies programs to suggest based on a user's viewing activity. The system uses different algorithms that are user-selectable and user-adjustable to identify program suggestions. The system may query a program guide database to build a list of programs having attributes similar to the attributes of the current program or the last viewed program. The system may use an …
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- Filed July 16, 1999 and granted January 19, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 16, 2019.
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