Systems and Methods for Presenting Home Screen Shortcuts

A computer system coupled to a television screen, the computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing multiple computer programs, including a plurality of TV applications, for execution by the one or more processors and for displaying content on the television, the memory including instructions for:
• coupling to a plurality of media content providers, wherein each media content provider is configured to provide media content displayed by a respective TV application;
• providing content for display on the television screen;
• obtaining a plurality of shortcuts corresponding to a home screen user interface, each shortcut of the plurality of shortcuts associated with a particular TV application, wherein the plurality of shortcuts includes a TV channel shortcut that, in response to selection by a user, provides, for display on the television screen, content currently being broadcast on the TV channel corresponding to the TV channel shortcut;
• providing the home screen user interface including the plurality of shortcuts for display concurrently with the provided content;
• and
• in response to selection of one of the plurality of displayed shortcuts, providing, for display on the television screen, content of a TV application corresponding to the selected displayed shortcut, wherein in response to selection of the TV channel shortcut, a set of actions are executed in association with the TV channel shortcut, the set of actions at least including a first action to launch a TV player application associated with the TV channel shortcut and a second action of tuning to the TV channel corresponding to the TV channel shortcut.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing multiple computer programs, including multiple TV applications, for execution by one or more processors of a computer system coupled with a television device and for displaying content on the television device, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions for:

• coupling to a plurality of media content providers, wherein each media content provider is configured to provide media content displayed by a respective TV application;
• providing content for display on the television screen;
• obtaining a plurality of shortcuts corresponding to a home screen user interface, each shortcut of the plurality of shortcuts associated with a particular TV application, wherein the plurality of shortcuts includes a TV channel shortcut that, in response to selection by a user, provides, for display on the television screen, content currently being broadcast on the TV channel corresponding to the TV channel shortcut;
• providing the home screen user interface including the plurality of shortcuts for display concurrently with the provided content;
• and
• in response to selection of one of the plurality of displayed shortcuts, providing, for display on the television screen, content of a TV application corresponding to the selected displayed shortcut, wherein in response to selection of the TV channel shortcut, a set of actions are executed in association with the TV channel shortcut, the set of actions at least including a first action to launch a TV player application associated with the TV channel shortcut and a second action of tuning to the TV channel corresponding to the TV channel shortcut.