Patent ID: 8505050

Claim:
A method for using a guide on user equipment, the method comprising: receiving a user input selecting a time period prior to a current time; generating a display in response to receiving the user input that includes, from video listings, a plurality of video listings corresponding to past transmissions of videos within the selected time period wherein each video listing corresponds to a single transmission of an associated video; determining, without user intervention, for each listing of the plurality of video listings within the generated display, whether said listing corresponds to a past transmission of a video that is available again at a future time; and visually distinguishing, in response to the user input, each of the video listings within the generated display determined to correspond to past transmissions of videos that are available again at a future time from the video listings within the generated display determined to correspond to past transmissions of videos that are not available again at a future time, wherein the visually distinguished video listings are displayed together with the video listings that are not visually distinguished within the generated display.