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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Applicants:
Nobukazu Sugiyama, San Diego, CA (US);
Jaime Chee, San Diego, CA (US);
Ted Dunn, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A smart search menu is displayed on a video display unit, wherein the menu includes an accumulated search criteria list and a results list. A user's selection is input from the menu as a selected element, and, if the user has selected an element of the search criteria, then the information is output to the video display unit. By accumulating the search criteria as a list of search criteria, the user is less likely to be 'lost' within the search menus, and may therefore more quickly find desired content within a content database.