发明名称 BIDIRECTIONAL MEDIA GUIDE WITH MEDIA GUIDANCE INTERFACE
摘要 <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for providing guidance to users looking for media. <P>SOLUTION: The system and the method can be provided in bidirectional media guides such as program guides, web browsers, or other suitable bidirectional media guides. The method includes: a step of providing indicators of a plurality of media groups that are available to a user, while the media groups indicate the media that are available to the user without indicating any of contents, title and source of the media; a step of providing a plurality of media indicators associated with the media groups in response to the indication of a desire to access the media indicator associated with the group by the user, and providing the media associated with the media group by a plurality of different media sources; and a step of executing actions to the one or more different media sources in response to the indication of a desire to access the media by the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT
申请公布号 JP2012044681(A) 申请公布日期 2012.03.01
申请号 JP20110209889 申请日期 2011.09.26
申请人 UNITED VIDEO PROPERTIES INC 发明人 THOMAS WILLIAM L;W BENJAMIN HERRINGTON;BEREZOWSKI DAVID M;KNEE ROBERT A;ELLIS MICHAEL D;WALKER TODD A;M SCOTT REICHERT
分类号 H04N7/173;H04N5/44;H04N5/445;H04N5/76;H04N5/782 主分类号 H04N7/173
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