Google Inc.

Yehuda Arie Koren

Leo Baghdassarian

Sailesh Nepal

Cory Mitchell O'Connor

Dmitri Plotnikov

Austin Quaid Walker

Bryan David Cassell

Kalyan Ganapathisubramanian

Matt Sheets

This application is directed to presenting a unified user interface on a network-connected television device. The unified user interface displays media content recommendations selected and organized based on knowledge of a user (e.g., search queries, search results, watch history, purchase history, physical activities). The unified user interface also includes a focus area for displaying a series of media content items (e.g., an advertisement) sequentially according to a temporal order for the purposes of promoting a media content item, product, event or service. In some implementations, playback of a media content item presented on the unified user interface relies on a collaborative implementation of a corresponding media player application and a media content casting application, particularly when the play involves a restricted mode. The content casting application is enabled to play the media content item at the restrict mode when the media player application does not operate in the restricted mode.

Network-connected television devices with knowledge-based media content recommendations and unified user interfaces

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