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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2014
Chestnut Hill Sound, Inc., Waban, MA (US);
Steven Krampf, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Evan B. Ross, Needham, MA (US);
Trung Quoc Phung, Milton, MA (US);
Chestnut Hill Sound, Inc., Waban, MA (US);
Abstract
A content selection interface for a media system including at least a first network interface for finding and accessing media content remote from said media system and at least one content source integral or electrically connected to said media system. The media system interface may have a single media content selector actuable by a user and means responsive to the media content selector for selecting plural media content items from among the network and local media content sources, the media content selector presenting to the user plural media content items represented as successive positions in a linearly arrayed sequence without the user having to manifest an explicit change between network and non-network sources from position to position.