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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