Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
active scheduling source as indicated at column 9. One textual
data source is the channel list 144 in Figure 11 for which
additional data as to any selected channel may be further
depicted by accessing the schedule identifier 146 in Figure 7
shown in detail in Figures 12 and 13, both of which clearly may
be construed as broad multimedia identifiers from different
sources that are selectable by the user. For any channel
selected according to the channel list in 144 in Figure 11, the
user is presented with the ability to select a particular program
among any given selectable channel in accordance with the showing
in Figure 12. The particular program represents a second source.
Of particular interest in the Figure 12 showings and
teachings with respect to this figure is the ability of the user
to select various icon categories 152 and affix them to each of
the respective boxes for any given program at any given time for
any given channel depicted in Figure 12. Again, this clearly
represents multimedia identifier information from a second or
different source among a plurality of sources.
This ability in Lopresti is stated to present to the user a
stated improvement over active scheduling since each program is
tagged with a predefined icon indicating its genre. This clearly
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