Patent ID: 8640170

Claim:
A method for displaying program listings, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of programs, wherein first ones of the plurality of programs are transmitted using a first transmission scheme by a first source and second ones of the plurality of programs are transmitted using a second transmission scheme different from the first transmission scheme by a second source, wherein each transmission scheme is used to transmit a plurality of programs at the same time; storing information associated with the first and second ones of the plurality of programs, wherein the stored information includes for each of the first and second ones of the plurality of programs an indicator indicative of the transmission scheme used to transmit the respective program; and generating a screen, based on the stored information, of program listings for at least some of the first and second ones of the plurality of programs such that the transmission scheme used to transmit a program is identified, wherein a program corresponding to a program listing in the generated screen is accessible from at least one of the first source and the second source responsive to a selection of the program listing.