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Patent No.:

US 9369765 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2014

Virtual channels

Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

John Blackburn, Newcastle, WA (US);

David A. Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);

Manish Gordhan Patel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mehran Sahami, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);

Daniel John Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Primary Examiner:

Nasser Goodarzi

Assistant Examiner:

An Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4782 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/458 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 21/23109 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2408 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4332 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/4782 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01); H04N 21/4828 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01);
Abstract

System and methods for formatting a virtual channel are provides in which, responsive to a user selection of a plurality of time-bounded multimedia events, there is formatted for display the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events in a first virtual channel. The user is enabled to fill a first time slot in the first virtual channel with overlapping time-bounded multimedia events from the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events. A representation of a numeric count of the overlapping time-bounded multimedia events is formatted for display in the first time slot.

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