Patent ID: 8930997
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, for use with a machine that includes a display screen, to obtain visual content items matched to scheduled programs comprising: providing on the display screen a program guide display that includes a grid with grid locations that identify scheduled programs, and that correspond to respective scheduled program times and to respective scheduled program sources; wherein the program guide display extends over a time frame prior to the current date; a data structure stored in a computer readable storage device that respectively, displaying the respective icon in each of the one or more respective grid locations of the program guide display associated in the data structure with the respective icon to indicate that the respective visual content item matched in the data structure to each such respective grid location of the program guide display currently is available from a respective source other than a respective scheduled program source identified in the respective grid location of the program guide display; and in response to a user selection of a respective grid location of the program guide display that displays the respective icon, accessing a respective menu and selecting from among a series of visual content items associated with the respective grid location to obtain a respective visual content item associated in the data structure with the respective selected grid location.