EXPANDED PLAYLIST FOR TV VIDEO PLAYER

摘要

An Internet TV video guide shows thumbnails of video assets available from one or more providers, and one or more of the assets may represent a playlist with two or more associated video clips. When a viewer selects a playlist asset, the thumbnail is expanded to show the individual clips so that a viewer can select a desired clip for play on the TV.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
at least one processor configured for controlling at least one video display; the processor configured for accessing instructions stored on at least one computer readable storage medium which instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for: outputting a video guide to be displayed on the video display, the video guide presenting plural graphics entities each being associated with a respective video asset on the Internet and each being selectable to cause at least a portion of the associated video asset to be played on the video display, at least a first graphic entity determined by the processor to represent a playlist of plural clips having respective titles at least in part based on determining that a flag in a data structure describing the first graphic entity contains a flag indicating the first graphic entity is a playlist, wherein the graphic entity representing the playlist is presented in at least one configuration on the video display in which titles of playlist clips are presented in the graphic entity representing the playlist.