Ex Parte Burnhouse et al - Page 2

                Appeal 2007-0345                                                                             
                Application 09/812,417                                                                       
                                                                                                            
                                      STATEMENT OF THE CASE                                                  
                      Appellants invented a method of indicating actions to be taken for                     
                selected programs listed in an electronic programming guide in, for example,                 
                a direct broadcast satellite system.  Specifically, the system allows the user               
                to select a specific future action (e.g., recording a program) and indicate the              
                selected actions on a display.  Claims 1 and 23 are illustrative:                            
                      1.  A method for indicating future program action on a future program                  
                information display comprising:                                                              
                      providing future program information for a plurality of future                         
                programs, at least one future program being selected by a user;                              
                      providing, on a future program action menu, a plurality of future                      
                program actions for the selected future program, at least one future program                 
                action being selected by the user, each future program action being an action                
                selected to be performed on a future program;                                                
                      allowing the user to accept or modify the action;                                      
                      receiving the selected at least one future program and the selected at                 
                least one future program action from the user; and                                           
                      displaying the future program information of the selected at least one                 
                future program with an indicator such that the indicator indicates the                       
                selected at least one future program action.                                                 
                      23.  A display for indicating future program action comprising:                        
                      a first image to provide future program information for a plurality of                 
                future programs, at least one future program selected by the user;                           
                      a second image comprising a future program actions menu including a                    
                plurality of future program actions for the selected at least one future                     
                program, each future program action being an action selected to be                           
                performed on one of the plurality of future programs;                                        
                      a third image comprising information on the selected action to allow                   
                the user to accept or modify the action; and                                                 
                      at least one fourth image comprising the future program information                    
                having a future program action indicated.                                                    




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