An interactive program guide system is provided. The program guide system has a logically flat navigator menu structure made up of program guide categories and selectable program guide options. Program guide categories correspond to fairly broad groups of program guide features. Selectable program guide options correspond to more specific program guide features. Each program guide category has associated selectable program guide options. Program guide categories may be displayed in a row across the top of the display screen. Selectable program guide options may be displayed in the same column as the program guide category with which they are associated. A highlight region may be positioned on one of the selectable program guide options. The selectable program guide options may be scrolled using a pair of vertical cursors. Pressing a horizontal cursor while the highlight region is on one of the selectable program guide options causes a new program guide category and associated column of selectable program guide options to be displayed in place of the originally displayed program guide category and associated selectable program guide options.

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›1.independentAn interactive program guide, comprising: control circuitry that: simultaneously displays a line of program guide categories and only a single perpend…+9

›2.↳ 1The interactive program guide defined in claim 1 wherein the control circuitry displays a highlight region on one of the program guide options.d2+5

›8.↳ 1The interactive program guide defined in claim 1 wherein the control circuitry scrolls the program guide options.d2

›9.↳ 1The interactive program guide defined in claim 1 wherein the control circuitry displays the program guide categories in a row.d2

›10.↳ 1The interactive program guide defined in claim 1 wherein the control circuitry displays the program guide options in a column.d2

›11.independentA method for providing an interactive program guide, comprising: simultaneously displaying a line of program guide categories and only a single perpen…+9

›12.↳ 11The method defined in claim 11 further comprising displaying a highlight region on one of the program guide options.d2+5

›18.↳ 11The method defined in claim 11 further comprising scrolling the program guide options.d2

›19.↳ 11The method defined in claim 11 further comprising displaying the program guide categories in a row.d2

›20.↳ 11The method defined in claim 11 further comprising displaying the program guide options in a column.d2

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345/327348/10455/6.2348/906

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