Remote user interface
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorMark Francisco
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Abstract
An interactive user interface, such as a remote terminal user interface, is compressed prior to transmission to a video client. The compression may be performed independently of any other video that may be simultaneously transmitted to the video client. At the client side, two compressed video streams (remote user interface and video content) may be decompressed independently of each other. In some cases, technology already existing in some client devices, such as picture-in-picture (PiP) capability, may be leveraged to decompress the received compressed remote user interface without needing to modify the hardware of those client devices.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- decompressing at least a portion of compressed video content to generate decompressed video content;
- decompressing at least a portion of a compressed interactive user interface separately from the compressed video content to generate a decompressed interactive user interface;
- determining, by a computing device and based on an indication of a user preference for outputting the decompressed interactive user interface in a location relative to the decompressed video content, output information for causing simultaneous output of both the decompressed video content and the decompressed interactive user interface;
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- causing output, based on the determined output information, of the decompressed interactive user interface with the decompressed video content for simultaneous output via a display device.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device and from one or more remote sources:
- a first stream comprising an interactive user interface, and
- a second stream comprising video content;
- determining, by the computing device and based on an indication of a user preference for simultaneously outputting the interactive user interface in a location relative to the video content, output information for combining the video content and the interactive user interface;
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- combining, by the computing device and based on the determined output information, the video content and the interactive user interface to generate an output stream comprising the interactive user interface and the video content.
A method comprising:
- decompressing, by at least one computing device, a compressed interactive user interface to generate a plurality of video frames of a decompressed interactive user interface;
- decompressing, by the at least one computing device, compressed video content to generate a plurality of video frames of decompressed video content;
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- causing, based on determined output information and an indication of a user preference for output of an interactive user interface in a location relative to video content, simultaneous output of video frames of the decompressed interactive user interface with video frames of the decompressed video content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.