Web browser system for displaying recently viewed television channels
OwnerChristopher M. Whiteinventor
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A system and method provides a way to display images of recently viewed television channels for the user's convenience. Multiple recently accessed television channels are stored in a list. Selecting channels in predefined ways causes the channels to be added to the list in an order in which they were accessed. Small screen images corresponding to a number of recently viewed television channels are displayed in a “recent channel” display screen. The small screen image for the channel being currently viewed is active and displays a live broadcast image, while the remaining small screen images display still images. A focus identifies the screen image of the currently active channel. The focus can be moved among the other small screen images within the recent channel display screen, wherein the channel corresponding to the currently focused image becoming the active channel.
A method of displaying recently accessed television channels comprising the following steps:
A method comprising the following steps:
A method comprising the following steps:
A client system capable of receiving multiple television channels, comprising:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the following steps:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the following steps:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the following steps:
In a set-top box system capable of receiving and presenting both television and Web content on a television, a user interface executing on the set-top box system comprising a primary display screen having multiple small display screens, each small display screen corresponding to a channel recently selected by a user, the user interface also having a movable focus to designate one of the small display screens from remaining ones of the small display screens.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.