Roku, Inc.

Silicon Valley Bank

Brandon Noffsinger

Jim Funk

A system and method for searching and displaying multimedia search results is disclosed herein. An embodiment operates by supplying a video stream to a primary display. An information request soliciting information associated with content of the video stream on the primary display is received. In response, a plurality of tag data relating to the video stream is supplied to a secondary display, wherein the plurality of tag data are visually and concurrently indicated on a single progress bar of the video stream being displayed on the secondary display, and whereby the tag content data is displayed on the display screen of the secondary display when one of the plurality of tag types is selected.

Searching and displaying multimedia search results

A system and method for searching and displaying multimedia search results is disclosed herein. An embodiment operates by determining that an interface including one or more previously saved searches is displayed, each of the previously saved searches corresponding to a set of one or more search terms. An updated plurality of search results is received for each of the previously saved searches from a remote server. A grouping of the plurality of search results for each of a plurality of different search terms is displayed across a plurality of individual time periods.

A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and/or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic.

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Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

Brandon Noffsinger