Patent ID: 7889976
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a storage device comprising a computerized user profile guideline corresponding to selected television programming interests of a user; a processor operatively connected to said storage device, wherein said processor manages data based on said computerized user profile guideline, wherein said data is received from a television programming broadcaster; a user interface that manages access to specified television programming when said computerized user profile guideline corresponding to said selected television programming interests of said user is satisfied; a short messaging service (SMS) overlay mechanism operatively connected to said processor and adapted to transmit SMS overlay messages to remote devices during broadcasting of said specified television programming; a computer application adapted to infer suitability of potential television programming corresponding to said user based on said user profile guideline; and any of a receiver and a demodulator operatively connected to said processor, wherein said any of said receiver and said demodulator is adapted to alert said user of an existence of said potential television programming, wherein said computerized user profile guideline is established at a remote location from said processor, wherein said alert is received from cellular channels of a computer running a web application, wherein said user interface is adapted to display a tabular view of television programming available to be accessed by said user, wherein said user interface is adapted to identify said specified television programming to be any of recorded, viewed, and transmitted to a secondary data storage device, and wherein said user interface identifies said specified television programming to be any of recorded, viewed, and transmitted to a secondary data storage device by color coding selected specified television programming.