SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING CONTENT

• US 20150326929A1
• Filed: 07/21/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Stahulak, Charles, Barnes, Bruce, Mallian, Dolores J., Marathe, Nikhil
• Granted Patent: US 10,200,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42692 for reading from or writing on a volatile storage medium, e.g. Random Access Memory [RAM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4384 involving operations to reduce the access time, e.g. fast-tuning for reducing channel switching latency
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4823 using a channel name
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

A method includes receiving, at a computing device, input indicating a request to view a list. The list includes multiple elements, each of the elements corresponding to respective video content. The method also includes sending the list to a display device in response to the request, where the elements of the list are ordered based on a display order of the respective video content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, input indicating a request to view a list, wherein the list includes multiple elements, each of the elements corresponding to respective video content; and

sending the list to a display device in response to the request, wherein the elements of the list are ordered based on a display order of the respective video content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the list is navigable via user input at the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the elements of the list is selectable via user input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a number of elements included in the list is less than or equal to a threshold number of elements.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising, responsive to the list including the threshold number of elements, removing an oldest element corresponding to a least recently displayed video content item from the list and adding a new element corresponding to a most recently displayed video content item to the list.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the threshold number of elements is user defined.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the elements includes an identifier associated with the respective video content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the list is displayed concurrently with particular video content corresponding to a particular element included in the list.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving the particular video content via a network.

10. A device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving input indicating a request to view a list, wherein the list includes multiple elements, each of the elements corresponding to respective video content; and

sending the list to a display device in response to the request, wherein the elements of the list are ordered based on a display order of the respective video content.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the list is navigable via user input.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor, the memory, and the display device are included in a desktop computer or a laptop computer.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor and the memory are included in a set-top box.

14. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor and the memory are included in a game console.

15. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor, the memory, and the display device are included in a wireless electronic device.

16. The device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise sending particular video content corresponding to a particular element included in the list to the display device such that the list is displayed concurrently with the particular video content.

17. A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving input indicating a request to view a list, wherein the list includes multiple elements, each of the elements corresponding to respective video content; and

sending the list to a display device in response to the request, wherein the elements of the list are ordered based on a display order of the respective video content.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the list is navigable via user input and wherein each element of the list is directly selectable via a respective single user input.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the display order of the respective video content corresponds to a previously display of the respective video content.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the list is displayed concurrently with display of particular video content corresponding to a particular element included in the list.