To provide a system and a method for providing guidance to users looking for media.
The system and the method can be provided in bidirectional media guides such as program guides, web browsers, or other suitable bidirectional media guides. The method includes: a step of providing indicators of a plurality of media groups that are available to a user, while the media groups indicate the media that are available to the user without indicating any of contents, title and source of the media; a step of providing a plurality of media indicators associated with the media groups in response to the indication of a desire to access the media indicator associated with the group by the user, and providing the media associated with the media group by a plurality of different media sources; and a step of executing actions to the one or more different media sources in response to the indication of a desire to access the media by the user.
W BENJAMIN HERRINGTON
BEREZOWSKI DAVID M
KNEE ROBERT A
ELLIS MICHAEL D
WALKER TODD A
M SCOTT REICHERT
| JPH0865322A | 1996-03-08 | |||
| JPH10248050A | 1998-09-14 | |||
| JPH08139747A | 1996-05-31 | |||
| JPH0865622A | 1996-03-08 |
Takaaki Yasumura
Natsuki Morishita
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