SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING CONTENT USING AN INTERNET CONTENT GUIDE

摘要

Providing an Internet Content Guide, ICG, for playback devices that may be used to access content via the Internet using a remote database containing navigation hierarchy definitions for specific devices. Content metadata is collected by a remote server from the plurality of sources. A metacenter is constructed based upon feeds describing content accessible via the remote servers and retrieved from the feeds to update a content metadata database. Playback devices communicate with the metacenter and access content via the Internet. The content metadata database defines navigation hierarchies for different playback devices. Navigation hierarchy includes category information and content information. Playback devices are configured to obtain a navigation hierarchy appropriate to the playback device; the playback device only includes category and content information authorized to access and capable of playing back. The devices are configured to generate an Internet content guide using the navigation hierarchy.