US 6,983,483 B2
Scheduler apparatus employing a gopher agent for use in a television receiver
Kenneth Wayne Maze, Indianapolis, Ind. (US); Jeffrey Philip Reavis, Indianapolis, Ind. (US); Robert Howard Miller, Carmel, Ind. (US); Sheila Renee Crosby, Carmel, Ind. (US); Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer, Fishers, Ind. (US); Hugh Boyd Morrison, Indianapolis, Ind. (US); and Megan Louise Brown, Carmel, Ind. (US)
Assigned to Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/765,168.
Application 09/765168 is a division of application No. 08/687285, filed on Jul. 25, 1996, granted, now 6,216,264.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/006889, filed on Nov. 17, 1995.
Prior Publication US 2002/0023082 A1, Feb. 21, 2002
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 725—53 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for processing channel guide information, comprising the steps of:
receiving channel guide information;
receiving a user-entered search request, wherein said user-entered search request is a string of text;
performing until said search request is turned off, a search of said channel guide information for a program in said channel guide information having a program description that satisfies said user-entered request, wherein said search continues as channel guide information is undated by the receipt of new channel guide information during said searching step;
displaying a reminder anytime a program is found in said perform step having said program description that satisfies said user-entered request.