Patent ID: 8869206

Claim:
A method of performing and scheduling actions related to viewing and recording television programs for a display device, the method comprising: displaying a program list having multi-windows respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels, wherein each of the multi-windows is configured to display a corresponding channel; displaying a channel management menu having a list of menu items; indicating that at least one of the multi-windows has been selected in response to a first cursor command generated by a key input unit; displaying an action menu including scheduling actions in response to a first user command when one of the list of menu items is selected; indicating one of the scheduling actions as selected in response to a second cursor command; scheduling an action chosen from the action menu in response to a second user command to the selected at least one of the multi-windows; and displaying an indicator of the action chosen from the action menu in the selected at least one of multi-windows, wherein the displaying of the indicator includes a reserve recording overlapping another reserve record time.