Patent ID: 7665108

Claim:
A broadcasting program displaying apparatus using an electronic program guide (EPG), the apparatus comprising: a data broadcast receiver configured to periodically download an EPG for guiding broadcasting programs and tags for downloading the broadcasting programs guided to the EPG from a server via an Internet network, transmit the downloaded EPG to an image displaying apparatus, receive broadcasting programs from a corresponding broadcasting server on the basis of the tags when the broadcasting programs are selected by a user, and transmit the broadcasting programs to the image displaying apparatus, wherein the data broadcast receiver determines whether the selected broadcasting program is a broadcasting program to be broadcast in the future, and reserves the selected broadcasting program selected by a viewer when the selected broadcasting program is the broadcasting program to be broadcast in the future; and a storage unit configured to download the selected broadcasting program from a corresponding broadcasting server on the basis of the tag of the selected broadcasting program, and store the downloaded broadcasting program, wherein the EPG and tag corresponds to a past EPG and tag that is different than a currently broadcasting EPG and tag such that the past tag can be selected to view the past EPG and selected broadcasting program, and wherein the tag includes a uniform resource locator (URL) for displaying the location where information related to the broadcasting program and the broadcasting program are stored, and an ordinal time of the broadcasting program and broadcasting date, wherein the EPG and tag further includes another EPG and tag corresponding to the EPG currently broadcasting and the tag corresponding to the EPG currently broadcasting, and an EPG which will be broadcast in the future and a tag corresponding to the EPG which will be broadcast in the future, wherein the server stores the received EPGs and the tags, wherein the server stores past broadcast programs that have already been broadcasted such that when the viewer selects a past broadcast program from the past EPG, the image displaying apparatus displays the past broadcast program, and wherein the data broadcast receiver is further configured to allow the viewer to record the selected past broadcast program or to view the selected past broadcast program.