ADAPTIVE GUIDE BASED ON CATEGORIZATION

摘要

A method and apparatus for generating and modifying an adaptive electronic program guide are described including receiving program content and program information, creating the adaptive electronic program guide, determining if there has been a hard failure in delivery of the program content and modifying the adaptive electronic program guide to indicate the program content is unavailable if there has been a hard failure in delivery of the program content. Further described are a method and apparatus for generating and modifying an adaptive electronic program guide including receiving program content and program information, creating the adaptive electronic program guide, determining if the program content is available on viewer's set top box and modifying the adaptive electronic program guide to indicate a time remaining to download or stream the program content.