Patent ID: 6990679

Claim:
A display interface having a group of channels for tuning a television receiver, said display interface comprising: a channel matrix having n columns and m rows for displaying a plurality of channel indicaters for at most n×m channels, the channel matrix including entries for both available and unavailable channels, where n and m are positive integers greater than 2, each channel indicator corresponding to a respectively different position in the matrix, wherein channel indicators corresponding to channels having programs with viewer selected features are highlighted and the channels represented by the channel matrix are one group of channels among a plurality of channel groups; a channel group indicator, separate from the plurality of channel indicators, configured to be selected to switch the channel matrix among the groups of channels to select a current group of channels and to display a base channel number for the current group of channels; a cursor configured to be moved to positions along the rows and columns of the matrix; a channel status section, separate from the channel matrix, which displays status information, including a channel number and a plurality of program property indicators of a television channel corresponding to the indicator at the position of the cursor on the matrix, wherein the channel status section and the channel matrix are displayed concurrently; and a channel selector which selects and tunes the channel number equal to a sum of the base channel number and the channel indicator at the position of the cursor on the matrix.