Media mashing across multiple heterogeneous platforms and devices

• US 20090259971A1
• Filed: 09/22/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Metaradar, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Metaradar, Inc.
• Inventors: Maruvada, Prasad, Rankine, Scott, Darling, Dale
• Application Number:
  US12/284,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259971A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

Systems and methods providing for improved navigation and aggregation of a multiplicity of Internet based media and communication types are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a Internet experience Manager (IEM) is adapted to present, to a user, a user interface. The user interface is defined in an interface window. The user interface includes a playback window, a graphic control interface, and an icon pallet. In an embodiment, the graphic control interface and the icon palette are adapted to operate together to enable the user to manipulate a selectable plurality of graphically manipulable icons within the user interface window such that the items of digital content associated with each of the plurality of icons are aggregated and managed as a collective in response to the graphic control interface.

Claims

1. A system for a user interface that provides and manages access and aggregation of multimedia and communication digital content by a user over the Internet, the system comprising:

a user interface window presenting a common format across multiple platforms;

a player window defined within the user interface window, the player window including software adapted to present to the user via the player window a multiplicity of different types of digital content;

an icon palette defined within the user interface window, the icon palette including a multiplicity of graphically manipulable icons and software adapted to display and manipulate the multiplicity of icons, each icon associated with a given item of digital content; and

a graphic control interface including a plurality of graphically manipulable buttons and software adapted to control the manner in which the items of digital content associated with the multiplicity of icons are presented in the player window, the graphic control interface and the icon palette operating together to enable the user to manipulate a selectable plurality of the icons within the user interface window such that the items of digital content associated with each of the plurality of icons are aggregated and managed as a collective in response to the graphic control interface.