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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel J. O'Callaghan, Fairfax Station, VA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4756 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/858 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device can provide a first instruction to display a grid-based programming guide in a graphical user interface (GUI). The grid-based programming guide can include a plurality of time-scheduled content providers and a plurality of time-scheduled content elements, and a plurality of on-demand content providers and a plurality of on-demand content elements. The device can receive an input associated with a first on-demand content provider, can establish, based on receiving the input, a session with a content platform associated with the first on-demand content provider, and can provide, based on establishing the session with the content provider, a second instruction to display the content in the GUI via the session with the content provider.


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