Patent ID: 8584172

Claim:
A method for accessing video programs over an Internet link, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of video programs with electronic user equipment, wherein the electronic user equipment outputs to a first electronic display device, and wherein the electronic user equipment and the first electronic display device are located at a first same location within a user home; receiving by the electronic user equipment, over the Internet link from processing circuitry, a communication indicative of a video program selected by a user, wherein the processing circuitry: outputs to a second electronic display device which is different from the first electronic display device, wherein the processing circuitry and the second electronic display device are located at a second same location remote from the first same location; generates a display of a screen of a guide, wherein the screen of the guide comprises a plurality of interactive video program listings that identifies the plurality of video programs, wherein the display is generated based on guide information from the electronic user equipment and received by the processing circuitry over the Internet link; receives the user selection of the video program, wherein the user selects the video program by selecting an interactive video program listing that is displayed, by the guide, on the second electronic display device; and generates the communication based on the user selection of the interactive video program listing that is displayed, by the guide, on the second electronic display device; accessing the video program with the electronic user equipment in response to receiving the communication by at least one of tuning to a channel of the video program with the electronic user equipment and retrieving the video program previously selected by the user for recording; and transmitting, from the electronic user equipment, the selected video program over the Internet link to the processing circuitry.