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Patent No.:

US 12081839 B1

Date of Patent:

Sep. 03, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2021

News feed for media content selection

Applicant:

Opentv, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Chandrika Kasi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

OPENTV, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:

SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG & WOESSNER, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

James R Marandi

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04N 21/4886 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/4858 (2013.01); H04N 21/488 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);

Abstract

Example embodiments provide a media content news feed identifying one or more media content streams that may be received and displayed. In an example embodiment, media content alert information is received at a media content device that describes at least one of a plurality of media content streams receivable at the media content device via a network. The received media content alert information is processed to generate a content news feed including one or more content news items. The content news feed is presented using the display device. A selection of one of the content news items of the feed is received, with the selected content news item identifying a corresponding media content stream of the plurality of streams. Based on the selected content news item, the corresponding media content stream is processed.

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