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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1999
Daniel Richard Schneidewend, Fishers, IN (US);
Aaron Hal Dinwiddie, Fishers, IN (US);
Steven Charles Rhoads, Carmel, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, Cedex, FR;
Abstract
A video decoder provides an interface enabling a User to create, manage and maintain favorite service lists for facilitating User navigation through a complex array of multimedia services. The on-screen display interface system generates an abbreviated menu list of favorite multimedia services available from both local and remote sources to enable navigation through user selected favorite services. A database associates individual services and corresponding menu items in the favorite services menu with their respective sources and supports service selection, tuning and acquisition. Additional abbreviated lists of favorite multimedia services, comprising sub-sets of parent service lists, are also hierarchically displayed in response to User command in order to facilitate and focus a search for a desired service.