US 12,726,684 B2 · Systems and methods for presenting user selected scenes

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for presenting user selected scenes. A media guidance application may generate for display a listing for a media asset, wherein a play length of the media asset includes a non-selectable play length portion and a selectable play length portion. The media guidance application may generate for display a first scene option corresponding to a first scene and a second scene option corresponding to a second scene. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of the first or second scene option and incorporate the selected scene into the selectable play length portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may generate for display the media asset with the selected scene incorporated into the selectable play length portion.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

causing to be displayed, at an interface associated with a device, a video asset comprising a first alternate scene option of the video asset and a second alternate scene option of the video asset;
storing a first received selection corresponding to the first alternate scene option;
storing a second received selection corresponding to the second alternate scene option;
and
based at least in part on the stored received selections, causing to be displayed at the interface simultaneously with the video asset, an interface element comprising a progress bar and a plurality of icons overlaying the progress bar during display of the video asset, wherein at least two of the plurality of icons correspond to the stored received selections of the first and second alternate scene options.

2 more elements

A system comprising:

display circuitry configured to display video;
and
control circuitry configured to:
cause to be displayed, at an interface associated with a device via the display circuitry, a video asset comprising a first alternate scene option of the video asset and a second alternate scene option of the video asset;
store a first received selection corresponding to the first alternate scene option;
store a second received selection corresponding to the second alternate scene option;
and
based at least in part on the stored received selections, cause to be displayed at the interface simultaneously with the video asset via the display circuitry, an interface element comprising a progress bar and a plurality of icons overlaying the progress bar during display of the video asset, wherein at least two of the plurality of icons correspond to the stored received selections of the first and second alternate scene options.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/975,511Filed 10 Dec 2024 · continuation

Priority

30 Sep 2014

Published

US 2025/0220276 A13 Jul 2025

Granted

1 Sep 2026

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

H04N 21/4821
End-user interface for programme selection: using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
H04N 21/4825
End-user interface for programme selection: using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
H04N 21/8133
Involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts: specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a…
H04N 21/8456
Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments: by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Family

Application14/502,851Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2014

Application15/927,991Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Mar 2018

Application16/700,209Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Dec 2019

US 10,531,159 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jan 2020

Application18/227,007Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Jul 2023

US 11,758,235 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Sep 2023

US 2025/0220276 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Jul 2025

US 12,206,951 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2016/0094888 A1Published application

US 2018/0279007 A1Published application

US 2020/0154174 A1Published application

US 2023/0379549 A1Published application

US 12,726,684 B2This patent

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Systems and methods for presenting user selected scenes

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Abstract

Claims20