Patent ID: 6816172
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A method for managing television program information in an entertainment system comprising:receiving broadcast television programming from a broadcast source; presenting a television programming guide to a user, the television programming guide showing a plurality of different television programs on each of a plurality of different television channels, data to support the television programming guide being stored in a location local to the entertainment system; upon selection of a particular one of the television programs of the television programming guide, presenting television program data about the selected television program; presenting a multimedia identifier to the user within the television programming guide together with the television program data, the multimedia identifier being associated with further data about the selected television program; determining a location of the further television program data corresponding to the multimedia identifier upon the multimedia identifier being selected by the user; retrieving the further television program data corresponding to the selected multimedia identifier from a location remote from the storage location of the television programming guide and separate from the broadcast source; and presenting the further television program data to the user at the entertainment system within the television programming guide.