Automatically playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus

• US 9,207,842 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2007
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Larsen, Christopher W., Bennetts, Christopher L.
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGGETT, ANDREA C.
• Application Number:
  US11/745,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20080282193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,137 Days
• Field of Search: 715/835, 715/720
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A system comprises a display and logic coupled to the display. The logic automatically begins playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on the display.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a display on which an icon is displayed, said icon associated with a video clip and a media track, wherein said video clip plays for less time than said media track;

logic coupled to said display, wherein, after, and in response to, the user single clicking the icon via a pointing device to place the icon in focus and leaving the icon in focus for a pre-determined amount of time, said logic automatically begins playing the video clip, and wherein, upon the user double clicking the icon via the pointing device, said logic automatically begins playing the media track.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein pre-determined amount of time is at least two seconds.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said logic begins playing the video clip in a preview window on said display.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the video clip comprises a preview clip associated with the media track.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the video clip ceases playing when a different icon is in focus.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said icon is associated with one of a channel identifier, genre type, show name, and title name.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said logic receives metadata that comprises an identifier of the video clip.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium (CRM) comprising software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

access a metadata database, the database comprising data about media organized in a hierarchy of shows and titles, with a number of titles associated with each show;

display a user interface comprising icons representing at least some of the items in the hierarchy, each icon representing a different item in the hierarchy;

automatically play a video clip from the database that is associated with an icon that is made in focus on a display by a single click of the icon; and

upon a double click of the icon, automatically play a media track associated with the icon;

wherein said media track plays for a longer period of time than the video clip.

9. The non-transitory CRM of claim 8 wherein said software causes said processor to automatically begin playing the video clip after the icon has been in focus for more than a threshold amount of time.

10. The non-transitory CRM of claim 8 wherein the video clip comprises a preview clip associated with a media track.

11. The non-transitory CRM of claim 8 wherein the software causes the processor to cease playing the video clip when a different icon is in focus.

12. The non-transitory CRM of claim 8 wherein the software causes the logic to receive metadata that comprises an identifier of the video clip.

13. The CRM of claim 8 wherein the hierarchy further comprises a number of channels, a number of shows associated with each channel and wherein the video clip associated with a channel is a preview of that channel.

14. The CRM of claim 13 wherein the hierarchy further comprises a number of genres, a number of genres being associated with each channel, and wherein the video clip associated with a genre is a preview of that genre.

15. The CRM of claim 8 wherein the accessed metadata for each item in the hierarchy comprises a name, an image and a preview clip.

16. A method, comprising:

selecting an icon to be in focus via a single click; and

automatically playing a video clip associated with the icon that is in focus on a display after, and in response to, the user leaving the icon in focus for a pre-determined amount of time;

selecting the icon via a double click;

automatically playing a media track associated with the icon;

wherein said media track plays for a longer period of time than the video clip.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the pre-determined amount of time is at least two seconds.

18. The method of claim 16 further comprising selecting an icon that is already in focus.

19. The method of claim 16 further comprising ceasing playing the video clip upon a different icon being in focus.