SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO-RICH NAVIGATION

• US 20140245354A1
• Filed: 04/30/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Kunkel, Gerard, Ellis, Michael D., Knee, Robert A., Radloff, Jon P.
• Application Number:
  US14/266,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20140245354A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• 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 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed that provide a user with efficient video-rich navigation (VRN) of media assets in an interactive media guidance application, such as an interactive program guide. A user can select a displayed video asset and perform an action on the selectable video asset, for example, using a remote control. The manner in which the video assets are displayed and the actions enabled for the particular video assets are defined by screen data transmitted to the user equipment in a VRN data feed.

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A method for providing a video-rich navigation interface, comprising:

receiving, with a client, a video feed comprising video data for a plurality of video assets and screen data associated with the video feed;

receiving, with the client, a template defining a layout for a first interactive display, wherein the template includes placeholders, instead of videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed, for video content;

populating the template by resolving the placeholders with the videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed, wherein the placeholders are resolved based on the screen data; and

generating for display the first interactive display, wherein the first interactive display is defined by the template and populated with the videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the placeholders are for visual elements of the first interactive display, and each video asset in the first interactive display is located in a position in the first interactive display that corresponds to one of the placeholders.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the placeholders in the template are resolved with selectable and non-selectable items based on the screen data.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein the screen data includes asset identifiers, and populating the template comprises retrieving visual elements corresponding to the asset identifiers.

34. The method of claim 30, wherein the template is associated with a template identifier, and receiving the template comprises retrieving the template from memory using the template identifier.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein the template identifier is specified in the screen data associated with the video feed.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein receiving the template comprises one of receiving the template in a video-rich navigation data feed, downloading the template from a distribution facility, accessing a template embedded as part of a video-rich navigation client, receiving the template in a feed of interactive program guide data, and retrieving the template from local memory at the client.

37. The method of claim 30, wherein the template defines a home page interactive display.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the home page is a default display generated when video-rich navigation is initiated.

39. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of a displayed element in the first interactive display; and

generating for display a second interactive display based on the user selection.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein the second interactive display is generated from a second template.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein the second template is associated with a second template identifier, and the screen data relates the second template identifier with the selected displayed element in the first interactive display.

42. The method of claim 30, wherein generating for display the first interactive display comprises generating for display a highlight on a default selectable element in the first interactive display, wherein the default selectable element is defined by the template.

43. The method of claim 30, wherein the template defines at least one of a location, appearance, size, shape, or navigation behavior for an element in the first interactive display.

44. A system for providing a video-rich navigation interface, the system comprising control circuitry configured to:

receive a video feed comprising video data for a plurality of video assets and screen data associated with the video feed;

receive a template defining a layout for a first interactive display, wherein the template includes placeholders, instead of videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed, for video content;

populate the template by resolving the placeholders with the videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed, wherein the placeholders are resolved based on the screen data; and

generate for display the first interactive display, wherein the first interactive display is defined by the template and populated with the videos of the plurality of video assets from the received video feed.

45. The system of claim 44, wherein the placeholders are for visual elements of the first interactive display, and each video asset in the first interactive display is located in a position in the first interactive display that corresponds to one of the placeholders.

46. The system of claim 44, wherein the placeholders in the template are resolved with selectable and non-selectable items based on the screen data.

47. The system of claim 44, wherein the screen data includes asset identifiers, and populating the template comprises retrieving visual elements corresponding to the asset identifiers.

48. The system of claim 44, wherein the template is associated with a template identifier, and receiving the template comprises retrieving the template from memory using the template identifier.

49. The system of claim 48, wherein the template identifier is specified in the screen data associated with the video feed.

50. The system of claim 44, wherein receiving the template comprises one of receiving the template in a video-rich navigation data feed, downloading the template from a distribution facility, accessing a template embedded as part of a video-rich navigation client, receiving the template in a feed of interactive program guide data, and retrieving the template from local memory at the client.

51. The system of claim 44, wherein the template defines a home page interactive display.

52. The system of claim 51, wherein the home page is a default display generated when video-rich navigation is initiated.

53. The system of claim 44, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive a user selection of a displayed element in the first interactive display; and

generate for display a second interactive display based on the user selection.

54. The system of claim 53, wherein the second interactive display is generated from a second template.

55. The system of claim 54, wherein the second template is associated with a second template identifier, and the screen data relates the second template identifier with the selected displayed element in the first interactive display.

56. The system of claim 44, wherein generating for display the first interactive display comprises generating for display a highlight on a default selectable element in the first interactive display, wherein the default selectable element is defined by the template.

57. The system of claim 44, wherein the template defines at least one of a location, appearance, size, shape, or navigation behavior for an element in the first interactive display.