Patent ID: 8255952
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An interactive television system having user television equipment on which an interactive program guide application and an interactive non-program-guide application are each at least partially implemented wherein the program guide application provides an application program interface to the non-program-guide application, said user television equipment being configured to: use the non-program-guide application to display a non-program-guide information display region that includes at least one non-program-guide option that is related to a program identified in the non-program guide information display region; receive a user selection of the non-program-guide option that is related to the program identified in the non-program guide information display region; use the non-program-guide application to provide instructions for the program guide application based on the application program interface in response to the user selection; and use the program guide application to display, based on the instructions received from the non-program-guide application, a programming information display region that includes a plurality of options that are related to the program identified in the non-program-guide information display region when the non-program-guide option is selected, wherein the plurality of options provides the user with an opportunity to access program guide data and non-program-guide data.