TELEVISION SCHEDULE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION FOR MULTIPLE PROGRAM OCCURRENCES

Patent №

US 5,801,787

Granted

1998-09-01

Filed 1996

Owner

STARSIGHT TELECAST, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08665216

An improved television guide system. According to one embodiment of the invention, television guide information is provided that includes multiple occurrences of a single show. The guide system of the present invention allows the user to identify a show and, thereafter, identify when the identified show will be played again. Accordingly, the user may more easily select shows for viewing or recordation.

Natural languageSpeechH04N 21/482H04N 5/765H04N 21/4622H04N 21/47H04N 21/4828H04N 21/8133H04N 21/4135H04N 21/462

AI classification

Speech0.94
Natural language0.91
Machine learning0.02
AI hardware0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

STARSIGHT TELECAST, INC.

assignment · 84320337

Assignors

SCHEIN, STEVEN M., WARDEN, DAVID P., KING, MOLLY K., ALBA, THERESA A., RUSSMAN, ROBERT E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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