Patent ID: 8776127

Claim:
A method of television program suggestion comprising the acts of: displaying a current television program on a display, the current television program being displayed on an entire display area of the display; displaying a user selectable suggestion mode option indicating whether a context-based program suggestion function is activated or deactivated; activating the context-based program suggestion function by a user; in response to the activating act, accessing a profile of a viewer and an electronic program guide (EPG) by a suggestion engine, outputting by the suggestion engine a signal containing program suggestions, and displaying the program suggestions on the display, the program suggestions being for television programs included in the EPG based on the profile and usage by the viewer of the EPG including a current location of the viewer in the EPG; displaying a first picture-in-picture window on the display including information from the EPG and the suggestion mode option indicating that the context-based program suggestion function is activated; browsing the information from the EPG displayed in the first picture-in-picture window; in response to the activating act and the browsing act, displaying a second picture-in-picture window on the display including information about the program suggestions, wherein the current television program remains on the entire display area of the display, and the first and second picture-in-picture windows are overlaid on the current television program and do not contact each other leaving gaps between the first and second picture-in-picture windows, and wherein the current television program that remains on the entire display area of the display with the first second picture-in-picture windows are overlaid thereon is visible through the gaps.