Patent ID: 9380346
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations including: receiving, at a computer system, information that relates to a geographic location of a user of media services; identifying a plurality of broadcast head ends responsive to the received information, wherein each broadcast head end provides service coverage with scheduled broadcast media to a particular geographic area that includes the geographic location of the user; identifying a first broadcast head end of the plurality of broadcast head ends that provides content that is available to the user; and generating, for presentation to the user, condensed program guide information that is formatted to display channels from the first broadcast head end and channels of the others of the plurality of broadcast head ends in a single program guide, wherein particular channels from the first broadcast head end are displayed in a first area and channels from one or more of the others of the broadcast head ends are displayed in separate areas according to a decreasing likelihood of a capability to provide content that is available to the user at the geographic location of the user.