METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CONTENT
First Claim
1. A method of graphically depicting a content library comprising acts of:
- retrieving content items and associated data describing characteristics of each one of the content items;
identifying at least one attribute of the characteristics;
graphing representations of each of the content items in at least two-dimensions based on the identified at least one attribute.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A technique is provided for identifying user accessible content items, organizing the content items by characteristics of the content items and providing a graphical representation of the content items to the user based on the characteristics. A path may be traced within the graph and a playlist of the content items may be provided based on a proximity of the representations of each of the content items to the traced path. The path may have a starting point and content items positioned closer along the path to the starting point may be provided higher up on the playlist than content items positioned farther along the path from the starting point. The content items may be rendered in an order determined by the order of the content items provided on the playlist.
39 Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method of graphically depicting a content library comprising acts of:
-
retrieving content items and associated data describing characteristics of each one of the content items; identifying at least one attribute of the characteristics; graphing representations of each of the content items in at least two-dimensions based on the identified at least one attribute. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
-
-
13. An application embodied on a computer readable medium arranged to graphically depict a content library, the application comprising:
-
a portion arranged to retrieve content items and associated data describing characteristics of each one of the content items; a portion arranged to identify at least one attribute of the characteristics; and a portion arranged to graph representations of each of the content items in at least two-dimensions based on the identified at least one attribute. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
-
-
18. A device for graphically depicting a content library, the device comprising:
-
a display; and a processor operationally coupled to the display, wherein the processor is arranged to; retrieve content items and associated data describing characteristics of each one of the content items; identify at least one attribute of the characteristics; and graph representations on the display of each of the content items in at least two-dimensions based on the identified at least one attribute. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
-
Specification