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Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2009
Applicants:

Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);

Tracy Ho, San Diego, CA (US);

Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);

Sabrina Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);

Hyehoon Yi, Escondido, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);

Tracy Ho, San Diego, CA (US);

Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);

Sabrina Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);

Hyehoon Yi, Escondido, CA (US);

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Electronics Inc., Parkridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for providing content related to a multimedia program on a display device where currently viewed multimedia programs are monitored so that content related to the currently viewed multimedia program may be retrieved from a content source and displayed on a flexible user interface on the display device upon request by the user, in which the user is able to adjust a size and position of the flexible user interface on the display device.


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