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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2010
Applicants:
Seth Hill, La Mesa, CA (US);
Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);
Sabrina Tai-chen Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
Inventors:
Seth Hill, La Mesa, CA (US);
Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);
Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/4782 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4828 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4782 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01);
Abstract
A TV display presents a grid of thumbnails representing content available for display from the Internet and next to the grid, a column of thumbnails representing content that conforms to a user-entered query. The conforming content is located by searching the Internet, from an EPG, from local TV storage, and from the TV's home network. Search result thumbnails are prioritized according to user navigation history.