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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Paul Fahn, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Martin Freeman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/4122 (2013.01); H04N 21/4307 (2013.01); H04N 21/4884 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a system comprising a menu navigation application module comprising a request unit for requesting menu metadata information associated with a piece of content, a menu interface unit for generating one or more menu interfaces based on the menu metadata information, and a menu navigation control unit for enabling user interaction with menu interfaces during playback of the piece of content. The menu interfaces and the piece of content are displayed on different devices. The menu interfaces are displayed without interrupting the playback of the piece of content.


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