METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING AN UPDATEABLE NON-LINEAR CONTENT LINEUP DISPLAY

• US 20080244645A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Moon, Hannah Y., Morley, D. Beau
• Application Number:
  US11/694,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/37
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26291 for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A method and system may include sending a linear content signal to cause display of linear content, receiving a graphical user interface display request signal requesting display of a graphical user interface, and sending a graphical user interface signal to cause display of a graphical user interface, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier field, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sending a linear content signal to cause display of linear content;

receiving a graphical user interface display request signal requesting display of a graphical user interface; and

sending a graphical user interface signal to cause display of a graphical user interface, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier field, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a selection request signal selecting the non-linear content identifier field, the selection request signal indicating one of retrieving non-linear content using the non-linear content identifier for display and storing the non-linear content identifier as a stored non-linear content identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a non-linear content request including the non-linear content identifier;

receiving a non-linear content response including the non-linear content; and

generating a non-linear content display signal to cause display of the non-linear content.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a reminder associated with the non-linear content.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising causing display of a reminder display based on the reminder.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising causing display of a reminder of the non-linear content.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising

receiving a selection request signal selecting the non-linear content identifier field;

and

causing display of a subtopic non-linear content identifier field associated with the selected non-linear content identifier field.

8. The method of claim 7, further wherein the subtopic non-linear content identifier field is displayed in a subdisplay of the graphical user interface.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection request signal selecting the non-linear content identifier field;

identifying a time stamp associated with the non-linear content identifier field; and

causing display of a segment within the linear content associated with the time stamp.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a non-linear content request including the non-linear content identifier;

receiving a non-linear content response comprising updated non-linear content associated with the non-linear content identifier.

11. A computer readable media comprising code to perform the acts of the method of claim 1.

12. A system comprising:

a client device communicatively coupled to a network, the client device to receive linear content signals to cause display of linear content at a display device, to receive a graphical user interface display request signal requesting display of a graphical user interface, and to cause display of the graphical user interface, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier field, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the client device receives a selection signal selecting the non-linear content identifier field.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising

a server communicatively coupled to the network, wherein the client device sends to the server a non-linear content request that includes the non-linear content identifier in response to receiving the selection signal.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the server identifies non-linear content associated with the non-linear content identifier.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the server sends to the client device via the network a non-linear content response that includes the identified non-linear content.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the server determines that non-linear content associated with the non-linear content identifier has expired.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the server identifies whether any updated non-linear content is associated with the non-linear content identifier.

19. The system of claim 18, where in the event that the server identifies updated non-linear content associated with the non-linear content identifier, the server sends to the client device via the network a non-linear content response that includes the updated non-linear content.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the client device processes the non-linear content response to cause display of the updated non-linear content.

21. An apparatus comprising:

a video module to send a linear content signal to cause display of linear content; and

a graphical user interface module to receive a graphical user interface display request signal requesting display of a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface module to cause display of a graphical user interface, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier field, which is associated with a non-linear content identifier.