Patent ID: 7200854

Claim:
A method of generating a television program guide, said television guide including at least one display page comprising a grid including the following steps: generating said grid by providing a time bar, a series of cells, each cell indicating a program to be shown on a particular channel over the time period displayed, and the size of each cell indicating the start, finish and length of each program with respect to the time bar; calculating for each of the cells difference between the start time of the time bar and the start time of the program when at least one or more programs indicated by one or more corresponding cells within the grid starts outside the time period displayed; calculating for each of the cells difference between the end time of the time bar and the finish time of the program when at least one or more programs indicated by one or more corresponding cells within the grid finishes outside the time period displayed; and generating a display portion displaying the difference with respect to the program cell on the display for each of the programs which start or finish outside the time period displayed, wherein the display portion is generated simultaneously for two or more cells within the grid.