Linear program guide for media content access systems and methods
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1. A system comprising:
- a media content processing subsystem configured to provide at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display, said linear program guide includinga list of media content carriers and associated media content instances, andan endpoint located at one end of said list;
wherein said media content carriers and said endpoint are navigable, andwherein said media content processing subsystem is further configured todetect a user navigating to said endpoint,provide at least one previously unavailable selectable navigation tool in response to said user navigating to said endpoint,dynamically generate a channel group by adding at least one media content carrier to the channel group based on a category of a media content instance broadcast by the media content carrier at a particular time, andpresent a selectable shortcut to the dynamically generated channel group to the user via the navigation tool.
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Abstract
In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to provide at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display for presentation to a user. The linear program guide includes a list of media content carriers and associated media content instances, and an endpoint located at one end of the list. The media content carriers and the endpoint are navigable by the user, and the endpoint is associated with at least one selectable navigation tool for navigating within the linear program guide. In certain embodiments, the selectable navigation tool includes a selectable shortcut to a predefined location within the linear program guide.
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1. A system comprising:
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a media content processing subsystem configured to provide at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display, said linear program guide including a list of media content carriers and associated media content instances, and an endpoint located at one end of said list; wherein said media content carriers and said endpoint are navigable, and wherein said media content processing subsystem is further configured to detect a user navigating to said endpoint, provide at least one previously unavailable selectable navigation tool in response to said user navigating to said endpoint, dynamically generate a channel group by adding at least one media content carrier to the channel group based on a category of a media content instance broadcast by the media content carrier at a particular time, and present a selectable shortcut to the dynamically generated channel group to the user via the navigation tool. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus comprising:
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a graphics engine configured to generate one or more graphics to be provided to a display for presentation to a user; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to said graphics engine, said processor configured to cause said graphics engine to generate a program guide graphical user interface to be provided to the display, said program guide graphical user interface including at least a portion of a linear program guide, said linear program guide including a list of navigable media content carriers and associated media content instances, a first navigable endpoint located at one end of said list, and a second navigable endpoint located at another end of said list; wherein when the user navigates to said first navigable endpoint, said at least one processor is configured to cause at least one previously unavailable selectable navigation tool to be provided to the display for presentation to the user; and wherein when the user navigates to said second navigable endpoint, said at least one processor is configured to cause at least one other previously unavailable selectable navigation tool to be provided to the display for presentation to the user, wherein at least one of said predefined locations includes a subset group of said media content carriers, wherein said subset group is dynamically generated by adding at least one media content carrier to said subset group based on a category of a media content instance broadcast by the media content carrier at a particular time. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method comprising:
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providing at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display device for presentation to a user, said linear program guide including a list of navigable media content carriers and associated media content instances, and a navigable endpoint located at one end of said list; detecting a user navigation to said endpoint; providing, in response to said user navigation to said endpoint, at least one previously unavailable selectable navigation tool to the display device for presentation to the user; dynamically generating a channel group by adding at least one media content carrier to the channel group based on a category of a media content instance broadcast by the media content carrier at a particular time; and presenting a selectable shortcut to the dynamically generated channel group to the user via the navigation tool. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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