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Virtual channels

  • US 9,369,765 B2
  • Filed: 08/04/2014
  • Issued: 06/14/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • at a computer device including one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs, the one or more processors executing the one or more programs to perform the operations of;

    responsive to a user selection of a plurality of time-bounded multimedia events, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events is displayed on a display in a first portion of the display and wherein the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events is obtained in response to an alphanumeric search query provided by the user;

    (i) formatting for display a first virtual channel that is displayed in a second portion of the display concurrent with the display of the subset of the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events in the first portion of the display, wherein the first virtual channel includes representations of time-bounded multimedia events in the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events;

    (ii) filling a first time slot in the first virtual channel with overlapping time-bounded multimedia events from the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events;

    (iii) formatting for display, in the first time slot, a single representation that indicates the number of overlapping time-bounded multimedia events in the first time slot from the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events; and

    (iv) updating the first virtual channel by performing the search on the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events in accordance with a saved user query uniquely associated with the first virtual channel.

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