Button based video database interface

• US 20090187954A1
• Filed: 01/23/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Spence, Stephen, Groenink, Karen, Desai, Dwipal, Jones, Tim, Doduc, Natalie, Sharifi, Matthew, Tuerk, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US12/011,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20090187954A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/106
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• 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 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

The described embodiments of the present invention provide a video database client application configured to execute on a wireless communication device or a device with a small display screen. The video database client application includes a user interface including user interface components designed to access video information and view videos using the wireless communication device. The video database client application includes a video player module to integrate and control a native video player within the user interface. The video database client application further includes a video database interface module adapted to retrieve videos and video information from the video database. The video database interface module functions to pre-fetch information from the video database based on anticipated user information needs.

Claims

1. A method for displaying video content on a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

retrieving, by a client application executed on the wireless communication device, video information from a video server over a network, the video information describing video content available from the video server;

displaying the retrieved video information in a first portion of a display device of the wireless communication device, the first portion having a displayed width of substantially the entire display; and

displaying user interface controls in a second portion of the display device, at least one of the displayed user interface controls having a displayed width of substantially the entire display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portion and the second portion occupy a majority of the display screen.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first portion is above the second portion.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the user interface controls include a control for entering a search query to be executed on the video server.

5. A video database application comprising:

a video information display area comprising an image associated with a video and information for the video; and

a button area adjacent to the video information display area comprising a plurality of buttons, wherein each button navigates to a different screen of the video database application and at least a first button navigates to a screen which allows a user to enter a search query to the video database.