Patent ID: 7849481

Claim:
A method, comprising: providing, on a video display device, a program guide comprising a plurality of entries, each entry identifying a program of a plurality of programs, at least one entry, of the plurality of entries, including one or more interactive icons visually representing a plurality of types of interactive content with which the at least entry is associated, where providing the program guide comprises: filtering the plurality of entries based on whether interactive content is available for the programs; providing a particular program of the plurality of programs or information associated with the particular program on the video display device, the particular program corresponding to one entry of the at least one entry; receiving information associated with interactive content, where the received information associated with the interactive content is indicative of an association between the interactive content and the program, and indicative of a particular type of the plurality of types of interactive content, the interactive content corresponding to the particular type; and providing, by a set top box, an interactive content icon on the video display device, based on the received information associated with the interactive content, the interactive content icon indicating that the interactive content is available for the particular program, and visually representing the particular type of the plurality of types of interactive content.