MENU TRAILS FOR A PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER
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1. A method of generating a trail of visual cues to a target item on a portable media device, the method comprising:
- selecting a target item that is accessible via a navigation structure comprised of a plurality of nodes in a portable media device;
identifying one or more nodes in the navigation structure that are traversable to reach the selected target item; and
displaying to the user a visual cue with menu items that correspond to each of the identified one or more nodes and with the selected target item, so that a user may traverse a trail of menu items having visual cues in order to reach the target item.
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Abstract
A software and/or hardware facility for generating menu trails for a portable media player. A menu trail is a visual cue to a user, repeated on each menu item in the media player navigation interface, that highlights a path for the user to follow to a content item stored on or accessible by the media player, or to a capability of the media player. Menu trails may highlight new content and capabilities, or may highlight existing content or capabilities. A user using the media player may easily follow the visual cues through the player'"'"'s menus in order to navigate to the content item or capability.
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37 Claims
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1. A method of generating a trail of visual cues to a target item on a portable media device, the method comprising:
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selecting a target item that is accessible via a navigation structure comprised of a plurality of nodes in a portable media device; identifying one or more nodes in the navigation structure that are traversable to reach the selected target item; and displaying to the user a visual cue with menu items that correspond to each of the identified one or more nodes and with the selected target item, so that a user may traverse a trail of menu items having visual cues in order to reach the target item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17)
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18. A system for generating a trail of visual cues to a target item on a portable media device, the system comprising:
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a trail creation component for; selecting a target item that is accessible via a navigation structure comprised of a plurality of nodes in a portable media device; and identifying one or more nodes in the navigation structure that are traversable to reach the selected target item; and a presentation component for displaying to the user a visual cue with menu items that correspond to each of the one or more nodes identified by the trail creation component and with the selected target item, so that a user may traverse a trail of menu items having visual cues in order to reach the target item. - View Dependent Claims (19, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31, 34)
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35. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that, if executed on a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for generating a trail of visual cues to a target item on a portable media device, the operations comprising:
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selecting a target item that is accessible via a navigation structure comprised of a plurality of nodes in a portable media device;
identifying one or more nodes in the navigation structure that aretraversable to reach the selected target item; and displaying to the user a visual cue with menu items that correspond to each of the identified one or more nodes and with the selected target item, so that a user may traverse a trail of menu items having visual cues in order to reach the target item. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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