INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION WITH INTELLIGENT NAVIGATION AND DISPLAY FEATURES
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed that allow a user to efficiently navigate media selections in an interactive media guidance application and easily identify media for viewing. The disclosed methods and systems provide an environment wherein video assets are displayed according to a user preference on a mosaic page with multiple cells. A subset of the assets appropriate for display in a particular cell is determined based on the user preference. Relevance scores of the assets meeting the user preference are computed, and the asset having the greatest relevance for the user is selected and displayed the corresponding cell. The relevance scores can be computed based on the user'"'"'s historic viewing habits, user interaction with a media guidance application, or on specific user input.
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41. A method comprising:
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arranging on a mosaic page a plurality of cells; receiving a selection from the user of a first of the plurality of cells; receiving an input from the user specifying a criterion for the user selected first cell; determining, from among a plurality of video assets matching the user specified criterion, which video assets from the plurality of video assets are relevant to the user; and generating a display of a list of the relevant video assets in the user selected first cell on the user equipment device. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A system comprising:
user equipment configured to; generate a display of a mosaic page having a plurality of cells; receive a selection from the user of a first of the plurality of cells; receive an input from the user specifying a criterion for the user selected first cell; for each of a plurality of video assets matching the user specified criterion, determine a score indicative of relevance of the respective video asset to the user by comparing historic or expressed user preferences with data associated with the respective video asset; filter the plurality of video assets to remove video assets having scores below a predetermined threshold value; select from the filtered plurality of video assets, for display in the user selected first cell, a video asset having the greatest score indicative of relevance to the user; and generate a display of the selected video asset in the user selected first cell. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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