Unified media program guide systems and methods
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsBenny Devassykutty, Heath Stallings, Daniel S. Dunnam
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Abstract
An exemplary method includes a media program guide system 1) providing, for display on a display screen, a media program guide user interface that includes a grid of cells representing scheduled-type media content and on-demand-type media content, and a selector window positioned relative to the grid of cells to select a cell included in the grid of cells, and 2) selectively configuring a feature of the selector window based on whether the cell selected by the selector window represents the scheduled-type media content or the on-demand-type media content. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- providing, by a media program guide system for display on a display screen, a media program guide user interface that includes
- a grid of cells representing scheduled-type media content and on-demand-type media content, and
- a selector window positioned relative to the grid of cells to select a cell included in the grid of cells;
- and
- selectively configuring, by the media program guide system, a feature of the selector window based on whether the cell selected by the selector window represents the scheduled-type media content or the on-demand-type media content.
A method comprising:
- providing, by a media program guide system for display on a display screen, a media program guide user interface that includes
- a grid of cells representing scheduled-type media content and on-demand-type media content, and
- a selector window positioned relative to the grid of cells;
- detecting, by the media program guide system, that the selector window is positioned to select a first cell within the grid of cells and that the first cell represents a scheduled-type media program;
- configuring, by the media program guide system, the selector window to be a scheduled-type-media-content version of the selector window in response to the detecting that the selector window is positioned to select the first cell and that the first cell represents the scheduled-type media program;
- detecting, by the media program guide system, that the selector window is positioned to select a second cell within the grid of cells and that the second cell represents at least one on-demand-type media program;
- and
- configuring, by the media program guide system, the selector window to be an on-demand-type media content version of the selector window in response to the detecting that the selector window is positioned to select the second cell and that the second cell represents the at least one on-demand-type media program.
A system comprising:
- at least one physical computing device that includes a media program guide user interface facility that:
- provides, for display on a display screen, a media program guide user interface that includes
- a grid of cells representing scheduled-type media content and on-demand-type media content, and
- a selector window positioned relative to the grid of cells to select a cell included in the grid of cells;
- and
- selectively configures a feature of the selector window based on whether the cell selected by the selector window represents the scheduled-type media content or the on-demand-type media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.