Patent Document ID: 7945929
Application ID: 12826910

Base Claim:
1. A method for using program listings information to locate programs of interest to a user, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of program listings with user equipment, wherein at least one of the program listings is associated with two or more simple categories; and generating at least one combination category with the user equipment, the generating comprising: identifying the two or more simple categories associated with the at least one program listing; and combining at least a subset of the identified simple categories associated with the at least one program listing into the at least one combination category, wherein the combination category comprises more than one of the identified simple categories.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one combination category is one of a plurality of combination categories, and wherein the simple categories included within any given one of the plurality of combination categories are associated with a single one of the plurality of program listings.