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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2007
Frederic Azera, Kirkland, WA (US);
Colin Acton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Cory Cirrincione, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hayton, Redmond, WA (US);
Erick Fejta, Seattle, WA (US);
Frederic Azera, Kirkland, WA (US);
Colin Acton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Cory Cirrincione, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hayton, Redmond, WA (US);
Erick Fejta, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A channel-selection filter. The channel-selection filter helps a user navigate to a desired channel. In particular, the channel-selection filter presents a filtered channel list to the user when the user issues one or more channel-filtering commands. The filtered channel list narrows a list of all available channels to those channels that correspond to the channel-filtering commands issued by the user. When presented with a filtered channel list, the user can select a channel from the filtered channel list. The user can also issue additional channel-filtering commands to further narrow the list of channels presented in the filtered channel list.