Patent ID: 9538243
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: associating a channel metaphor with a Universal Resource Locator (URL) in a program guide, the program guide describing program material and including at least a description of program material contents, the program material including at least television broadcast programs on television broadcast channels and web programs on URL-based channels; in response to receiving a user command to access the channel metaphor from the program guide, using the channel metaphor to access the URL and display a resultant program material associated with the URL; storing an aggregation object that references multiple programs in the program guide, the aggregation object associated with at least a particular broadcast program of the television broadcast programs on one or more of the television broadcast channels and at least a particular web program on one or more of the URL-based channels; based on input requesting recording for the aggregation object, generating a schedule for recording specific programs associated with the aggregation object on at least one storage device, the specific programs including both the particular web program and the particular broadcast program; recording the specific programs in accordance with the schedule; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.