Patent ID: 7197759

Claim:
A method for display of electronic program guide information to a viewer while viewing a television program, wherein the electronic program guide information is organized in various slices each containing at least a channel identifier and a program element for a given time element, and wherein the viewer selectively determines how to expand the program guide information when initially presented to the viewer in browse mode so as to present additional program guide information, the method comprising steps for: retrieving from an electronic program guide at least a first slice of program guide information; displaying in a browse mode the retrieved slice in a window that is simultaneously presented for viewing with a displayed television program; in response to a viewer-activated scrolling command scrolling toward a new slice that is not currently viewable to the viewer, expanding the displayed number of slices on a slice-by-slice basis by one additional slice of program guide information to said browse mode window corresponding to the new slice that is not currently viewable to the viewer while continuing to display the retrieved slice; and the viewer selectively continuing to add another additional slice of program guide information to said browse mode window using a viewer-activated scrolling command while continuing to display the retrieved slice until a pre-defined number of slices is reached.