Automatic generation of TV history list
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1. A television system, comprising:
- a television including a television display;
the television comprising a processor for presenting on the television display, in response to a user command, a user interface that presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list;
the History list comprising a list of objects that meet at least one of the criteria established as stored rules that define valid History list events, the stored rules defining the valid History list events comprising at least rules that determine that;
a 10-key direct tuned television channel number has been tuned,a channel that has been tuned for more than a threshold amount of time,a video source that has been selected,an Internet television service provider that has been selected,a television Widget that has been selected,a media file that has been selected, andan object is active at the time when the History list is invoked; and
where the History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list.
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Abstract
A television system presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list that meets one of a set of History list criteria. The History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
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1. A television system, comprising:
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a television including a television display; the television comprising a processor for presenting on the television display, in response to a user command, a user interface that presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list; the History list comprising a list of objects that meet at least one of the criteria established as stored rules that define valid History list events, the stored rules defining the valid History list events comprising at least rules that determine that; a 10-key direct tuned television channel number has been tuned, a channel that has been tuned for more than a threshold amount of time, a video source that has been selected, an Internet television service provider that has been selected, a television Widget that has been selected, a media file that has been selected, and an object is active at the time when the History list is invoked; and where the History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A television system, comprising:
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a television including a television display; the television comprising a processor for presenting on the television display, in response to a user command, a user interface that presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list; the History list comprising a list of objects that meet at least one of the criteria established as stored rules that define valid History list events, the stored rules defining the valid History list events comprising at least rules that determine that; a 10-key direct tuned television channel number has been tuned, a channel that has been tuned for more than a threshold amount of time, a video source that has been selected, an Internet television service provider that has been selected, a television Widget that has been selected, an ambient player that has been selected, a channel is tuned while entering or leaving a picture-in-picture display mode, a media file that has been selected, and an object is active at the time when the History list is invoked; where the History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list; and where the processor checks the History list for duplicates when an instance of an object meets one of the criteria, and in the event of detection of a duplicate, deletes the duplicate and places the latest instance of the object at the top of the list. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A television system, comprising:
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a television including a television display; the television comprising a processor for presenting on the television display, in response to a user command, a user interface that presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list; where the command comprises a command that invokes a menu of Favorites that includes the History list; the History list comprising a list of objects that meet at least one of the criteria established as stored rules that define valid History list events, the stored rules defining the valid History list events comprising at least rules that determine that; a 10-key direct tuned television channel number has been tuned, a channel that has been tuned for more than a threshold amount of time, a video source that has been selected, an Internet television service provider that has been selected, a television Widget that has been selected, an ambient player that has been selected, a channel is tuned while entering or leaving a picture-in-picture display mode, a media file that has been selected, and an object is active at the time when the History list is invoked; where the History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list; where the processor checks the History list for duplicates when an instance of an object meets one of the criteria, and in the event of detection of a duplicate, deletes the duplicate and places the latest instance of the object at the top of the list; where the menu of Favorites is displayed as a horizontal sequence of icons with a History list icon situated at the center of the horizontal sequence of icons and displayed as a larger icon than other icons in the sequence of icons; where, under user selection, the History icon is depicted as either a file folder, and History list entries are depicted as items inside the file folder, and where the History list icons are navigated by user commands that display the History icons as pages being turned in the file folder, or the History icon is depicted as a horizontal sequence of icons with a plurality of History list entries situated at the center of the horizontal sequence of icons, where a latest entry is at the center and is flanked by other History list entries; where the History list entries are selected by default upon invocation of the menu of Favorites and are displayed in a larger icon window than other icons in the sequence of icons; and where the History list is initialized upon any one of power-on of the television system, resetting the television system from standby, and changing a tuning mode.
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Current AssigneeSony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
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Original AssigneeSony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
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InventorsGupta, Manish, Yeh, Sabrina, Ho, Tracy
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Granted Patent
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Time in Patent OfficeDays
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Field of Search
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US Class Current715/776
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CPC Class CodesH04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing...H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selection...H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. eve...H04N 21/47 End-user applicationsH04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g....H04N 21/4781 Games
