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Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected time

  • US 20060041927A1
  • Filed: 05/02/2005
  • Published: 02/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for a computing device to present information about television programs via a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

  • receiving metadata information for a plurality of television programs;

    identifying a group of the television programs for a graphical user interface such that received metadata information for those television programs will be included in the graphical user interface, the group including a plurality of television programs that are identified based at least in part on the television programs each having an associated time that corresponds to an initial currently selected time;

    displaying to a user of the computing device a graphical window that includes the graphical user interface, the displayed graphical user interface having a state based at least in part on the currently selected time and including metadata information for the television programs in the identified group;

    receiving an indication of a selection by the user of a new currently selected time, and updating the state of the displayed graphical user interface to reflect the new currently selected time, the updating including displaying metadata information for television programs that are identified based at least in part on each having an associated time that corresponds to the new currently selected time; and

    automatically maintaining the state of the graphical user interface so as to reflect the new currently selected time by, when the graphical user interface is to be updated such that at least some new metadata information is to be displayed in the graphical user interface, automatically performing the updating of the displayed graphical user interface in such a manner as to display the new metadata information in a manner based at least in part on the new currently selected time, so that a state of the graphical user interface that is based at least in part on a currently selected time is maintained when information in the graphical user interface is updated.

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