Patent ID: 7962936

Claim:
A method of displaying program information having contents of programs to be broadcast from at least one or more than one stations in a program guide of a computer, method comprising the steps of: receiving information on programs to be broadcast at the computer on at least one day from a plurality of stations, each of the programs having content; and placing a plurality of cells in which pieces of the program information are to be displayed, respectively, in a first two-dimensional program guide having a chronological time axis and a date axis and indicating when one of the pieces of the program information is overlapped by another one of the pieces of the program information, at least one first cell including a plurality of icons, each icon indicating an existence of further accessible information describing a distinct portion of the content included in a respective program of the programs to be broadcast on at least one day from the plurality of stations; and displaying, in response to a selection of any of the pieces of the program information which is indicated as being overlapped, a second two-dimensional program guide having the chronological time axis and a station axis, the second two-dimensional program guide including the selected program information pieces whose airtimes overlap each other on the same airdate, in such a manner that start and end times of the selected program information pieces are indicated but cells of the second two-dimensional program guide do not overlap each other.