This invention relates to interactive television program guide systems, and more particularly, to program guide systems that allow television service providers such as cable operators to provide showcases for various types of program offerings.
Cable, satellite, and broadcast television systems provide viewers with a large number of television channels. Viewers have traditionally consulted printed television program schedules to determine the programs being broadcast at a particular time. More recently, interactive electronic television program guides have been developed that allow television program information to be displayed on a viewer's television.
Interactive program guides are typically implemented on set-top boxes. Such program guides allow users to view television program listings in different display formats. For example, a user may instruct the program guide to display a grid of program listings organized in a channel-ordered or a time-ordered list. Users may also search and sort program listing by theme (e.g., movies, sports, etc.) or by title (i.e., alphabetically). A user may view additional information on a program by placing a highlight region on a desired program listing and pressing an “info” button. The user may purchase a pay program from the program guide by placing the highlight region on a program listing and pressing an “OK” button.
Although a user is often able to find information on a program of interest by searching for the program with the tools available in the program guide (e.g., by searching for listings in a particular category), this process requires that the user take an active role in locating the information. If a user desires a more passive experience, the user may not venture beyond the display screens in the program guide that present simple time-ordered lists of program information. As a result, the user may not be made aware of many of the cable system operator's offerings.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an interactive television program guide that enhances the ability of a service provider to supply users with information on the programming available from the service provider.
This and other objects of the invention are accomplished in accordance with the principles of the present invention by providing an interactive television program guide that allows a service provider such as a cable system operator, satellite system operator, or broadcast system operator to customize the type of television listings that are made available to the user in the form of an operator showcase. The operator showcase may be accessed by the user through a menu of television display screen options each of which corresponds to a different operator showcase television listings screen. For example, a television display screen option might be “sports packages” and the corresponding television listings screen might therefore contain a set of television listings on various available packages of sports programming that are available for purchase. Because the television listings screens are easily accessible in a central location in the program guide menu structure, the operator showcase provides an attractive way for the service provider to promote programming.
The service provider may brand the operator showcase by selecting a title and logos for each operator showcase television listings screen. In addition, the set of television listings information that is displayed in a given television listings screen is determined based on content criteria that are preselected by the service provider. The program guide uses the content criteria to query a database of television listings data periodically provided to the set-top box from a program guide database in a main facility. The results of the database query (i.e., the set of television listings information that satisfy the content criteria) are displayed in the operator showcase television listings screen.
The service provider may also select the format for each operator showcase television listings screen. For example, the service provider may select the format of a time-ordered list, a channel-ordered, list, an alphabetically-ordered list, or a display format containing a promotional video barker, etc.
A user may select a given item from the set of television listings information. For example, the user may position a highlight region on top of a program listing using cursor buttons on a remote control. Pressing an “info” button on the remote control directs the program guide to display additional information on the selected item. Pressing an “order” button directs the program guide to provide the user with an opportunity to purchase the selected item.
Further features of the invention, its nature and various advantages will be more apparent from the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments.
An illustrative program guide system 20 in accordance with the present invention is shown in
The program data transmitted by main facility 22 to television distribution facility 26 includes television program listings data such as program times, channels, titles, descriptions, etc. Transmitted program data also includes pay program data such as pricing information for individual programs, subscription channels, and packages, time windows for ordering programs, channels and packages, telephone numbers for placing orders that cannot be impulse ordered, etc. If desired, some of this data may be provided using data sources at facilities other than main facility 22. For example, data related to pay program order processing (e.g., billing data and the like) may be generated by an order processing and billing system that is separate from television distribution facility 26.
Television distribution facility 26 distributes the program data to multiple users via communications paths 30. Each user has user television equipment 32. Program data may be distributed to user television equipment 32 periodically (e.g., once each week). Television distribution facility 26 may also poll user equipment 32 periodically for certain information (e.g., pay program account information or information regarding programs that have been purchased and viewed using locally-generated authorization techniques).
User television equipment 32 typically contains equipment such as set-top box 34, an optional videocassette recorder 36, and television 38. Set-top box 24 may be controlled by remote control 40 or other user input interface such as a wireless keyboard, mouse, trackball, etc.
Set-top box 34 contains a microprocessor and other circuitry for executing instructions to support an interactive television program guide with pay-per-view services. The program guide may be implemented on set-top box 34 or may be implemented on user television equipment other than a set-top box if desired. For clarity, the present invention will be illustrated in connection with a set-top box implementation.
Communications paths 30 preferably have sufficient bandwidth to allow television distribution facility 26 to distribute scheduled television programming, pay programming, promotional videos, and other video information to user equipment 32 in addition to program data. If desired, program data may be distributed by one or more distribution facilities that are similar to but separate from television distribution facility 26 using communications paths that are separate from communications paths 30.
Certain functions such as pay program purchasing may require user equipment 32 to transmit data to distribution facility 26 over communications paths 30. If desired, such data may be transmitted over telephone lines or other separate communications paths (not shown). If functions such as these are provided using facilities separate from television distribution facility 26, some of the communications with user equipment 32 may be made directly to the separate facilities.
Multiple television and audio channels (analog, digital, or both analog and digital) may be provided to set-top box 34 via communications path 30. The television channels may include normal television channels, pay programming channels, and channels used to transmit promotional videos. During normal television viewing, the user tunes set-top box 34 to a desired one of these channels. The signal for that television channel may be provided at video output 42 as a radio-frequency (RF) signal on a predefined channel (e.g., channel 3 or 4) or as a demodulated video signal. The video signal at output 42 is received by optional videocassette recorder 36, so that the user may record programs. Program recording and other features may be controlled by set-top box 34 using control path 44. Audio signals (e.g., for digital music channels) may be provided to audio system 45 via output 47.
Television 38 may receive RF or demodulated video signals from videocassette recorder 36 via path 46. The video signals on path 46 may either be generated by videocassette recorder 36 when playing back a prerecorded videocassette or may by passed through from set-top box 34. The video signals provided to television 38 may contain real-time video signals for broadcast television programs, pay programs, or promotional videos. For example, if set-top box 34 is tuned to a particular channel, the video signals for that channel may be provided to television 38. Set-top box 34 also displays various program guide screens on television 38, which may contain television listings information and full-screen or partial-screen promotional videos.
Remote control 40 may have cursor keys, an “enter,” “select,” or “OK” button, a “guide” button, a “record” button, an “info” button, and various other control buttons. When the user presses the “guide” button, set-top box 34 invokes the interactive program guide and displays an appropriate screen of programming listings on television 38.
A typical program guide display is a grid or other suitable table or list of television program listings. Rows of listings may be associated with different television channels and columns may be associated with different scheduled broadcast times for the programs (e.g., 9:00 PM, 9:30 PM, and 10:00 PM).
Grids or tables of program listings and other program guide services may be accessed using any suitable technique. For example, set-top box 34 may provide a menu on television 38 such as menu 48 shown in
If desired, the functions of the dedicated “OK,” “guide,” “record,” and “info” buttons and various other control buttons on remote control 40 may be provided in the form of suitable menu options that the user may select using the cursor keys and a button such as the “OK” button. In addition, other dedicated buttons may be provided on remote control 40 if desired.
When a user selects the option “operator showcase” from menu 48 of
Because the operator showcase television listings screens may all be accessed through the “operator showcase” option in menu 48, the operator showcase television listings screens provide a centralized location in the program guide menu structure in which the user may obtain a large amount of information about the service provider's programming (particularly pay programming).
If the user selects the display screen option 54 entitled “PPV listings (by time),” the program guide displays a time-ordered list of pay-per-view television programs, as shown in operator showcase television listings screen 58 of
The user may select a pay program from the displayed list of pay programs in television listings screen 58 using highlight region 64. Once highlight region 64 has been placed on a given program listing (e.g., using cursor keys), pressing the “info” button directs the program guide to display additional information on the selected program. The additional information may be displayed using information display screen 66 of
If the user presses the “OK” button after highlighting a program on television listings screen 58 of
Another type of operator showcase television listings screen that may be provided is shown in
If the user selects the television display screen option 54 entitled “special events,” the program guide may display special events operator showcase television listings screen 70 of
An operator showcase television listings screen 76 that is suitable for promoting subscription television channels is shown in
Another television display screen option 54 in
Sometimes programs or channels are made available to the user as part of a package. Various package types may be supported by the program guide. For example, pay programming may be provided in a “time block” package that allows a user to purchase a block of time on a particular channel, a “pay-per-day” package that includes multiple consecutive airings of a single program, a “special events” package that includes multiple components of special programming events, a “season ticket” package that includes all sports programs of a specific league or team for the duration of the sports season, a “premium multiplex” package that includes authorization for more than one premium subscription channel, an “a la carte” package that may includes authorization for a selectable subset of a number of subscription channels, etc.
When the user selects the television display screen option 54 of
The television listings screens of
If desired, video may be displayed in an operator showcase television listings screen. For example, a promotional video barker 88 may be provided in an operator showcase television listings screen 90, as shown in
The service provider may configure the size of promotional video barker 88. For example, a quarter-screen promotional video barker 94 may be used in place of half-screen promotional video barker 88 if desired. A full-screen promotional video barker may be provided using the arrangement shown in
The title, logos, content, and format of the operator showcase television listings screens may be customized by each service provider to accommodate the promotional needs of that service providers. The content of the listings in a given operator showcase television listings screen may be determined based on content criteria that have been selected by the service provider. The program guide maintains a database of current television listings data in memory in set-top box 34. When the user selects a television display screen option, the program guide uses the content criteria in a database query to generate a set of television listings information for the corresponding television listings screen.
For example, when the user selects a television display screen option entitled “sports packages,” the program guide queries the database for all listings meeting the content criteria “sports” and “packages.” Illustrative content criteria include children's programming, sporting events, instructional programming, pay-per-view programming, packages, channels, programs, premium programming, programming on a la carte channels, movies, documentaries, special events, or programming airing on a specified list of channels, etc. On a screen that lists channels, the operator may choose to show premium channels, a la carte channels, basic channels, video channels, audio channels, a specified list of channels, etc. These content criteria are illustrative only. Any other suitable content criteria may be used if desired.
The listings satisfying the content criteria selected by the service provider may be displayed in an operator showcase television listings screen according to a preselected format. For example, the television listings screens for sports packages may contain listings for sports packages in a time-ordered list without an accompanying promotional video barker. Illustrative listings formats include by-time ordering, by-channel ordering, alphabetical ordering, listings with and without accompanying promotional video barkers, listings with different sizes of promotional video barkers, listings screens with and without logos, titles, etc. Any other suitable listings formats may be used if desired.
Steps involved in customizing the operator showcase television listings screens are shown in
At step 106, the title, logos, content criteria, and display formats that were selected by the service provider for the operator showcase television listings screens are provided to set-top box 34 in user television equipment 32. The selections of the service provider may be provided to set-top box 34 using any suitable technique. For example, the selections of the service provider may be provided to main facility 22 on a diskette and incorporated into program guide database 24. Main facility 22 may then transmit the selections from program guide database 24 to television distribution facility 26, which may distribute the selections to various set-top boxes 34. Alternatively, the selections of the service provider may be provided directly to television distribution facility 26, from which they may be distributed to set-top boxes 34. These approaches are illustrative only and any other suitable technique for providing the selections of the service provider to the user television equipment may be used if desired.
When a user selects a given television display screen option, a corresponding operator showcase television listings screen is generated at step 108 based on the title, logos, content criteria, and listings format provided to set-top box 34 in step 106. The set of television listings information in the television listings screen is generated at step 108 using the content criteria selected by the service provider to perform a database query on the database of television listings data stored in set-top box 34.
The foregoing is merely illustrative of the principles of this invention and various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.
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