Intel Corporation

Tivo Corporation

Kno, Inc.

Tivo Solutions Inc.

Ann Sydeman

Kyrie Robinson

Babur Habib

Osman Rashid

Bradley S Hochberg

Paul Chambers

Mohnish Rao

David Avraham Brown

Howard Look

Robert Vallone

Karen Bedard

David M Straus

Kelly Fry

Matthew Carlson

Brian Van Veen

Robert P Vallone

David A Brown

Howard D Look

An electronic device includes a processor, a memory for storing digital content and a display. The processor forms a content navigation bar for the digital content. The content navigation bar is rendered on the display and includes a first section marker corresponding to a first section of the digital content. A set of page markers corresponds to pages within the first section of the digital content. The set of page markers includes a boundary page marker. A second section marker is adjacent to the boundary page marker.

Apparatus and method for digital content navigation

Display screen for a graphical user interface

A multimedia program bookmarking system provides a bookmark function that allows the user to bookmark a program where he left off. The invention records the frame of the program where the user stopped when the user commands the system to do so. Alternatively, the invention automatically bookmarks the program for the user if the user exits viewing the program. The invention displays an indicator indicating that a bookmark has been saved and the user can, at any time, access his bookmark and continue playback of the program from where he left off. Bookmarks within a single program can be set for different users. Remote controls are encoded for a specific user in a household, allowing each person in the household to have a personal remote control and therefore, personal bookmarks. The invention notes that a set of bookmarks belongs to a certain encoded remote control. The user can alternatively select a specific set of bookmarks manually, through a menu. The system loads the associated bookmark information for the user and any bookmarks that do not have associated programs stored on the storage device are ignored and deleted, otherwise programs are played backed starting from the associated bookmarks, if they exist. Multiple bookmarks for a program are transparent to the user because the remote control that the user uses tells the system to only display and activate that particular user's bookmarks.

Multimedia program bookmarking system

Growing community of inventors

Woodside, CA, United States of America

Ann Sydeman