CHANNEL LINEUP REORGANIZATION BASED ON METADATA

• US 20080313675A1
• Filed: 06/12/2007
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Dunton, Randy R.
• Application Number:
  US11/761,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313675A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A user interface representing a channel lineup reorganization based on metadata may be described. An apparatus may comprise a user interface module to display at least one shorter list of relevant channels from a channel lineup. The at least one shorter list of relevant channels is determined by user input and metadata associated with content available via channels in the channel lineup. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a user interface module to display at least one shorter list of relevant channels from a channel lineup, wherein the at least one shorter list of relevant channels is determined by user input and metadata associated with channels in the channel lineup.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user input is represented by one or more of a genre, a favorites indication for the user, and a keyword search.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the channel lineup represents one of:

what is currently being offered by the channels, what will be offered in the future by the channels, and what was offered in the past or recorded by the channels.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a media lensing module to increase a size of one or more identifiers of a channel of interest in the channel lineup when a pointer coincides with the channel of interest.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the channel lineup is displayed in a vertical format.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user interface module to receive movement information from a remote control, and move the pointer in response to the movement information.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the remote control is a free-form pointing device.

8. A method, comprising:

determining at least one shorter list of relevant channels from a channel lineup, wherein the at least one shorter list of relevant channels is determined by user input and metadata associated with channels in the channel lineup; and

displaying the at least one shorter list of relevant channels.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user input is represented by one or more of a genre, a favorites indication for the user, and a keyword search.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the channel lineup represents one of:

what is currently being offered by the channels, what will be offered in the future by the channels, and what was offered in the past or recorded by the channels.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

increasing a size of one or more identifiers of a channel of interest in the channel lineup when a pointer coincides with the channel of interest.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the channel lineup is displayed in a vertical format.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving movement information from a remote control; and

moving the pointer in response to the movement information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the remote control is a free-form pointing device.

15. A machine-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

determining at least one shorter list of relevant channels from a channel lineup, wherein the at least one shorter list of relevant channels is determined by user input and metadata associated with channels in the channel lineup; and

displaying the at least one shorter list of relevant channels.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the user input is represented by one or more of a genre, a favorites indication for the user, and a keyword search.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the channel lineup represents one of:

what is currently being offered by the channels, what will be offered in the future by the channels, and what was offered in the past or recorded by the channels.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

increasing a size of one or more identifiers of a channel of interest in the channel lineup when a pointer coincides with the channel of interest.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the channel lineup is displayed in a vertical format.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising;

receiving movement information from a remote control; and

moving the pointer in response to the movement information,

wherein the remote control is a free-form pointing device.