Media content galleries

• US 20070055993A1
• Filed: 09/02/2005
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Braun, David, Sands, Kort, D'Aurelio, Ryan, Goyer, Matthew, Flora, William, Alphin, Thomas, Vidos, Hugh
• Application Number:
  US11/217,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20070055993A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/44 for identifying broadcast stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand

Abstract

The invention discloses a system and method for displaying media content in a user interface. The invention can be configured to identify registered media content providers, and can aggregate media content from the media content providers into a single media gallery. The gallery can include a plurality of types of media content, and the media content can come from a plurality of media content provider types.

Claims

1. A method for displaying media content in an user interface, comprising:

identifying at least one content provider;

aggregating a plurality of radio content types from the at least one content provider into a gallery; and

presenting the gallery in an user interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of radio content types includes at least two of Internet radio, satellite radio, FM radio, and third party radio content applications.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of radio content types includes Internet radio content types from two or more providers.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying the at least one content provider further comprises selecting the at least one content provider from a library of content providers.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the plurality radio content types as preset selections in the gallery.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising presenting an user interface of the at least one content provider to control playback of the radio content.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising controlling playback of the FM radio content via an extensibility application.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising grouping the preset selections into categories.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the movie content includes recorded movies.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of movie content provider types includes at least two of internal storage media drives, external storage media drives, recorded television movie providers, video-on-demand providers, servers, and websites.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising searching the gallery for movie content using identifiers.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising storing the movie content in a designated movie directory before aggregating the movie content into the gallery.

9. A method for displaying media content in an user interface, comprising:

identifying at least one movie content provider;

aggregating movie content from a plurality of movie content provider types into a gallery; and

presenting the gallery in an user interface.

14. A system for displaying media content in an user interface, comprising:

a content provider identification module for identifying at least one content provider;

an aggregation module for aggregating a plurality of radio content types from the at least one content provider into a gallery; and

an user interface for displaying the gallery.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of radio content types includes at least two of Internet radio, satellite radio, FM radio, and a third party radio content application.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of radio content types includes Internet radio content types from two or more providers.

17. The system according to claim 14, wherein the at least one content provider is selected from a library of content providers.

18. The system according to claim 14, wherein the plurality radio content types are stored as preset selections in the gallery.

19. The system according to claim 14, wherein an user interface of the at least one content provider is used to control playback of the radio content.

20. The system according to claim 15, wherein playback of the FM radio content is controlled via an extensibility application.