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Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2016
Applicant:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ronald Jacoby, Saratoga, CA (US);

Scott Lincke, San Carlos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/6547 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/4782 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/2665 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/25825 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/2665 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4782 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 2005/44556 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing an interface for a television device is provided, including the following method operations: identifying available services for consumption on a television device, wherein the available services include two or more of a broadcast television service, an on-demand video service, and an internet content service; determining a current date and time; determining content items available for consumption from each of the available services at the current date and time; determining an allocation of display locations in a cross-platform interface for content items from each of the available services, the allocation defining a relative amount of display locations for each of the available services based on a device profile associated with the television device; assigning content items to the display locations in accordance with the determined allocation.


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