Electronic program guide with support for rich program content

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H04N 5/445 (2006.01)

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CA 2362706

An electronic program guide that assists a user to navigate through a variety of digital and analog feeds made available by digital television technology is provided. Features such as allowing the user to purchase items, allowing the user to choose the content of the display screen, enabling more efficient use of black areas, among others are provided. Default settings based on prior user settings is provided to allow for an automatically customized environment. This automatic customization may entail, for example, the automatic resizing of windows based on the user's prior preferences. Also provided is a feature that allows for the automatic activation of a local or remote application through the user's set-top box based on the content currently being viewed.

L'invention concerne un guide de programmes électronique qui assiste un utilisateur en matière de navigation par le biais de diverses entrées numériques et analogiques diffusées au moyen de la technologie de télévision numérique. Parmi les fonctionnalités de ce guide on nommera la possibilité pour l'utilisateur d'acheter des articles, de choisir le contenu de l'écran d'affichage, d'utiliser plus efficacement les zones noires, etc. Les réglages par défaut basés sur les réglages précédents de l'utilisateur permettent la mise en place d'un environnement qui est personnalisé automatiquement. La personnalisation automatique permet d'effectuer, par exemple, le redimensionnement automatique des fenêtres sur la base des préférences précédentes de l'utilisateur. L'invention englobe aussi une fonctionnalité qui permet l'activation automatique d'une application locale ou distante au moyen du magnétoscope de l'utilisateur sur la base du contenu visualisé à l'instant même.

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