Patent ID: 6868225

Claim:
A process for bookmarking a user's position within an audio or video program material, comprising the steps of: providing a processor; providing at least one input signal tuner; wherein said at least one tuner accepts analog and digital television broadcast signals; extracting audio and/or video programs from said broadcast signals; providing a storage device; wherein said audio and/or video programs are stored on said storage device; wherein said processor plays a program from said storage device to the user; receiving user command input; detecting the point where the user exits playing said program or places an explicit mark within said program; storing said exit point or said explicit mark as a bookmark on said storage device; retrieving said bookmark for said program; playing said program starting from said bookmark; and providing bookmark indication means for visually indicating to a user that a bookmark exists for a program when said bookmarked program is displayed in a listing along with the names of other programs and their associated status indicators stored on said storage device; wherein said bookmark indication means displays an indicator next to each bookmarked program in said listing.