Electronic program guide with digital storage
CA 2810355 C · Owner: Tv Guide, Inc. · Inventors: Hedges, L. Joe; Hassell, Joel G.; Knudson, Edward B.
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An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage and maintain a user media library to do the same. Non-time-sensitive data associated with recorded programs may be stored in a way that allows the user to interact with the data on playback as if the program were being originally …
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- Filed September 16, 1999 and granted March 15, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 16, 2019.
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