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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Gregory N. Christie, San Jose, CA (US);
Alessandro Sabatelli, San Francisco, CA (US);
William M. Bachman, San Jose, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jim Young, Livermore, CA (US);
Joe Howard, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Ma, Redwood City, CA (US);
Lynne Kress, Seattle, WA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for a media content user interface. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface to the system that includes a side bar. The side bar includes multiple elements representing different categories of video content. By selecting a given category, available content is filtered according to the selected category and presented. Content which is presented may include live broadcast video for multiple channels on multiple television networks or other content providers. The side bar may further include a collection category specific to a given viewer. Selection of such a category may display video content within the collection. Subcategories in the side bar may be selected for further filtering of available content.