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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Opentv, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Huntington, Twickenham, GB;
David A. Merkoski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Celine Pering, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jordan Kanarek, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Scott Nazarian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Wagner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Rottler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Zeldis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gina Terada, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jared Marr, San Francisco, CA (US);
OPENTV, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to navigate viewable content in the context of television entertainment is provided. In one example embodiment, the system comprises a presentation module to present main content on a display screen, a communications module to receive a first request associated with a first directional key on a remote control device, a navigation mode detector to determine a navigation mode associated with the first request; a margin menu module to activate a margin menu associated with the determined navigation mode. The margin menu may be presented along one of the margins of a display screen, while permitting viewing of the main content.