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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2006
Ronald Jacoby, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brenda O'kane, Burlingame, CA (US);
Ronald Jacoby, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brenda O'Kane, Burlingame, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides messaging capabilities in conjunction with functionality for viewing and interacting with a plurality of content items t in a television environment. According to one embodiment, a method for providing one or more content items to a user comprises setting a context for a client device operated by the user and retrieving one or more representations of the context of one or more buddies associated with the user as indicated in a user profile, the one or more buddies in a social network of the user. The one or more representations of the context of the one or more buddies are displayed on the client device in conjunction with the context of the client device. A representation of a context of a given buddy is selected from the one or more representations and the context of the user is changed to the context of the given buddy.