Television scheduling system for displaying a grid

专利名称：Television scheduling system for displaying

a grid representing scheduled layout andselecting a programming parameter fordisplay or recording

发明人：Adam Christopher Rauch,Gregory

Riker,Nathan Paul Myhrvold,Edwin Thorne,III

申请号：US08/713588申请日：19960813公开号：US05731844A公开日：19980324

摘要：A computer method and system for providing a user with efficient selection of atelevision program to view or record. The method provides concurrent display of atelevision schedule with a graphic description and a textual description of the televisionprogram currently selected by the user from the displayed television schedule. Thedisplayed television schedule comprises a schedule layout displayed to the user on ascreen display. The schedule layout includes a number of program names arranged in anadaptively learned order based on the frequency of the user's previous selections. Eachtime a program name is selected by the user, the graphic description and the textualdescription of the television program represented by the selected program name aredisplayed concurrently with the adaptively ordered schedule layout. Thus, the user canselect a television program perceptively and without delay.

申请人：MICROSOFT CORPORATION

代理机构：Seed and Berry LLP

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