Managing removal of media titles from a list
First Claim
Patent Images
1. An interactive media services client device for providing a user with media information received from a programmable television services server device, said client device comprising:
- memory for storing data, the memory further comprising media titles corresponding to a displayed media title list, the media title list having at least one of the media titles, each media title being displayed in a title area;
a processor configured to;
cause a title area containing a media title identified by user input to be removed from said media title list; and
provide the user with a list of removed media titles, the list of removed media titles comprising the identified and removed media title that is provided to the user in the list of removed media titles subsequent to its removal.
5 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The invention can be viewed as a system for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable television services server device. A method of the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes receiving user input and excluding one or more media titles from a media title list based on the user input.
585 Citations
51 Claims
-
1. An interactive media services client device for providing a user with media information received from a programmable television services server device, said client device comprising:
-
memory for storing data, the memory further comprising media titles corresponding to a displayed media title list, the media title list having at least one of the media titles, each media title being displayed in a title area; a processor configured to; cause a title area containing a media title identified by user input to be removed from said media title list; and provide the user with a list of removed media titles, the list of removed media titles comprising the identified and removed media title that is provided to the user in the list of removed media titles subsequent to its removal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
-
-
6. A programmable television services server device for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device, said server device comprising:
-
memory for storing data, the memory further comprising media titles for populating a displayed media title list, the media title list having plural media titles from among the media titles, each media title of the plural media titles being displayed in a respective title area; and a processor configured to cause a title area containing one of the plural media titles identified by user input to be removed from said media title list, said processor being further configured to provide the user with a list of removed media titles that includes the one of the plural media titles, the list of removed media titles provided to the user subsequent to the removal of the one of the plural media titles. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. A method for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable television services server device, said method comprising:
-
receiving user input selecting a filtering criterion, the filtering criterion displayed on a graphics user interface; implementing a filtering function on a media title list based on the selected filtering criterion, the filtering function capable of filtering-in and filtering-out functionality; presenting for display a plurality of title areas each containing respective media titles of a subset of the media title list, the displayed plurality based on said filtering criterion; and providing the user with a displayed list of removed media titles, the removed media titles corresponding to those subject to the implemented filtering function. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
-
-
19. An interactive media services client device for providing a user with media information received from a programmable television services server device, said client device comprising:
-
memory for storing data, the memory further comprising media titles for a displayed media title list, each of the media titles being displayed in a respective title area; and a processor configured to; cause a title area containing at least one of the media titles to be deleted from said media title list; store information identifying the deleted media title and a corresponding deletion duration in the memory; and cause the deleted media title to be displayed based on the stored information. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, 32)
-
-
25. A programmable television services server device for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device, said server device comprising:
-
memory for storing data, the memory further comprising media titles for populating a media title list, each media title being displayed in a respective title area; and a processor configured to; cause a title area containing a media title corresponding to a filtering criterion identified by user input to be excluded from said media title list; and provide the user with a list of removed media titles. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
-
41. A media services system for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable media services server device, said system comprising:
-
memory having titles for display in a media title list, each media title being displayed in a title area; and logic stored in said memory, said logic being configured to; cause a title area containing a media title corresponding to a filtering criterion identified by user input to be excluded from a media title list; and provide the user with a list of removed media titles. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
-
Specification