USER INTERFACE FOR MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTATION

• US 20120151390A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Network Entertainment, Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Trotta, Nicholas, McFarland, Ross
• Application Number:
  US12/966,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20120151390A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting a user interface. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a user selection of a user interface displayed by the device identifying a graphical element, wherein the graphical element is associated with an association category, and determining one or more media titles based on one or more associations of media titles to the graphical element and at least one association category associated with a previously detected user selection. The method may further include displaying one or more graphical elements for each identified media title, wherein the one or more graphical elements are each associated with an association category for each of a plurality of user selections.

Claims

1. A method for presenting a user interface by a device, the method comprising the acts of:

detecting a user selection of a user interface displayed by the device identifying a graphical element, wherein the graphical element is associated with an association category;

determining one or more media titles based on one or more associations of media titles to the graphical element and at least one association category associated with a previously detected user selection; and

displaying one or more graphical elements for each identified media title, wherein the one or more graphical elements are each associated with an association category for each of a plurality of user selections.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection relates to selection of one or more graphical elements associated with media titles and one or more graphical elements associated with categories of media titles.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying one or more media titles includes scoring a plurality of media titles relative to the user selection to rank one or more associations of the media titles.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection and previously detected user selection relate to a user operating path of the user interface.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more media titles includes determining one or more associations of media titles based on associations of media titles relative to one or more of genre of the media title, specific cast or crew of the media title, contextual similarly to the media title, a keyword of the media title, a rating of the media title, and awards associated with the media title.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates to display of a plurality of graphical elements in a structural arrangement by the user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates to display of detailed view of a media title and graphical elements for one or more association categories.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates is based on a priority value assigned to each graphical element.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing one or more graphical element attributes based on each user selection, wherein each attribute is associated with a category of media titles or attribute of a media title.

10. A computer program product stored on computer readable medium including computer executable code for presenting a user interface, the computer program product comprising:

computer readable code to detect a user selection of a user interface displayed by the device identifying a graphical element, wherein the graphical element is associated with an association category;

computer readable code to determine one or more media titles based on one or more associations of media titles to the graphical element and at least one association category associated with a previously detected user selection; and

computer readable code to display one or more graphical elements for each identified media title, wherein the one or more graphical elements are each associated with an association category for each of a plurality of user selections.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the user selection relates to selection of one or more graphical elements associated with media titles and one or more graphical elements associated with categories of media titles.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein identifying one or more media titles includes scoring a plurality of media titles relative to the user selection to rank one or more associations of the media titles.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the user selection and previously detected user selection relate to a user operating path of the user interface.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein determining one or more media titles includes determining one or more associations of media titles based on associations of media titles relative to one or more of genre of the media title, specific cast or crew of the media title, contextual similarly to the media title, a keyword of the media title, a rating of the media title, and awards associated with the media title.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates to display of a plurality of graphical elements in a structural arrangement by the user interface.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates to display of detailed view of a media title and graphical elements for one or more association categories.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein displaying graphical elements associated for indentified media title relates is based on a priority value assigned to each graphical element.

18. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer readable code to store one or more graphical element attributes based on each user selection, wherein each attribute is associated with a category of media titles or attribute of a media title.

19. A device, comprising:

a display;

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the display, and memory, the processor configured to;

detect a user selection of a user interface displayed by the device identifying a graphical element, wherein the graphical element is associated with an association category;

determine one or more media titles based on one or more associations of media titles to the graphical element and at least one association category associated with a previously detected user selection; and

display one or more graphical elements for each identified media title, wherein the one or more graphical elements are each associated with an association category for each of a plurality of user selections.