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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marisa Bauer, Fremont, CA (US);
John Wayne Blackburn, Newcastle, WA (US);
David A. Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neha Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Dharma Heilman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manish Gordhan Patel, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Scott Reiss, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Mehran Sahami, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Maricia Scott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas H. Taylor, Redmond, WA (US);
Alice Tull, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Wagner, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Lucy Congyun Zhang, Union City, CA (US);
Daniel John Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for displaying program guide information are disclosed. In some implementations a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, formatting, for display, program guide data on a grid. The grid includes (i) a first axis representing units of time and (ii) a second axis representing multimedia channels. The program guide data comprises information representing a set of multimedia events. Responsive to a user-supplied selection of a multimedia event in the set of multimedia events a panel is overlaid on a portion of the grid. The panel provides additional data regarding the multimedia event.