Patent ID: 7383563

Claim:
An medium for storing instructions that, if executed, enable a processor-based receiver to: display a user interface on a display coupled to the receiver, said user interface including a listing of a plurality of programs to be televised on a given day at overlapping times, an indicator associated with each program to indicate whether the particular program should be monitored for an event, and if a particular program is to be monitored, another indicator to indicate the type of event for which the receiver is to monitor; simultaneously receive the number of video transmissions on the receiver corresponding to the number of televised programs indicated, in said user interface, to be monitored; tune said receiver to display a first video transmissions and to monitor and to store the number of received video transmissions, each video transmission in said number of received video transmissions to be monitored for the corresponding event indicated in said user interface; in response to detecting an event in one of the number of received video transmissions, stop the display of the first video transmission to store the first video transmission from the stop of the display and display the one of the number of received video transmission in which the event was detected, the display of said one of the number of received video transmissions from a predetermined time before the occurrence of the event; and in response to detecting an event in the first video transmission, display at least a portion of the first video transmission that was stored after detecting the event in the one of the number of received video transmissions; and store more than one user-selected option corresponding to a type of event for monitoring and display the user interface listing a plurality of programs, the programs of the same genre, said user interface to enable the user to select whether a given listed program should be monitored.