DISPLAY INSERTS, OVERLAYS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
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Abstract
A disclosed digital media device operational at user premises to receive media signals from a media source for presentation via endpoint devices such as a television display. The digital media device can include gateway and digital media management functionality and can be referred to as a gateway and digital media device. The device offers application services obtained over a wide area network and a user premises network. The digital media device may form a composite signal from the media signal and application service information, for example, for a composite audio and/or video signal for television type presentation to the user. The digital media device may receive a selection signal based on the presentation, for transmission to the application service provider device or to the media source. The media device also offers a GUI presenting a moveable arrangement of icons for selectively accessing application services.
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72 Claims
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48. A method, comprising:
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establishing, via a wireless network, a wireless connection with a media delivery device configured to provide media from a service provider; receiving user information for a first media application associated with media available from a first service provider; receiving, via the wireless network, a transmission for enabling the first media application based on the received user information; displaying, via a television, a plurality of application icons representing media applications for accessing media, wherein the plurality of application icons includes a first application icon that represents the first media application; moving the application icons along the television display in response to receiving one or more first signals from a remote control; displaying media for the first media application in response to receiving one or more second signals from the remote control for selecting the first application icon; and delivering selected media from the media delivery device to the television in response to receiving one or more third signals from the remote control for selecting media for the first media application. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A media streaming device, comprising:
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at least one processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the media streaming device to establish, via a wireless network, a wireless connection with a media delivery device configured to provide media from a service provider, receive user information for media applications for displaying content, receive, via the wireless network, a transmission for enabling a media application associated with the received information, display, via the television, a plurality of application icons representing media applications, wherein at least one of the application icons represents the media application associated with the received transmission, in response to receiving input from a remote control, move the application icons along the television display, in response to receiving input from the remote control for selecting one of the application icons, display content media for one of the media applications associated with the selected application icon, and in response to receiving input from the remote control for selecting media, deliver selected media from the media delivery device to the television. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62)
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63. A method, comprising:
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displaying, via a television, a dynamic graphical interface having a plurality of icons for enabling access to media content associated with media applications configured to stream media from a gateway to the television, wherein the gateway is configured to receive the media from a service provider; receiving user input associated with a subscription; adding icons to or removing icons from the dynamic graphical interface based on the subscription; and streaming media to the television, wherein the streamed media is associated with one of the icons of the dynamic graphical interface. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A media streaming device, comprising:
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memory storing media applications; and at least one processor in communication with the memory and being configured to wirelessly communicate, via a network, with a media delivery device configured to receive media from a service provider, display, via a television, a dynamic graphical interface having a plurality of icons for enabling access to media content associated with media applications for streaming media from media delivery device to the television; receive user input associated with a subscription; add icons to or remove icons from the dynamic graphical interface based on the subscription; and stream media to the television, wherein the streamed media is associated with one of the icons of the dynamic graphical interface selected by a user. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72)
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