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Program category selection with filtered data and displayed cascaded cards
Assignee: Nokia of America Corp
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Filing: 1997-11-10
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Granted: 1999-06-15
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Expires: 2017-11-10
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus and method for presenting a viewer with an overall representation of the present number of entertainment programs available for selection given one week of program schedule data for 300 or more channels and one or more filtering criteria to limit the number of items represented in the overall representation. Sequentially applied filters will filter the group of program schedule data items that has at least 100,000 half hour time slots offered by 300 channels each week into a smaller subgroup where individual consideration of each item of the subgroup can be made in a reasonable time. A set top box drives the display of overall representations or results of filtering criteria on a commercial TV set. Once a reasonable sized subgroup is obtained, other displays provide specific information of the program offerings of the subgroup. Selection of the filtering criteria and selection from within a subgroup is interactively made by a viewer through the use of a controller that looks and operates very much like a TV remote control. This makes the interaction familiar, easy and predictable.
Inventors
- 👤 Stephen Gregory Eick
- 👤 Peter Andrew Mataga
- 👤 Rebecca Anne Walpole
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 21:09
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/40; H04N21/47; H04N21/472; H04N21/47214; H04N21/43; H04N21/431; H04N21/4312; H04N21/433; H04N21/4334; H04N21/45; H04N21/454; H04N21/482; H04N21/4828; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99933; Y10S707/99937; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99944; Y10S707/99945; Y10S715/00; Y10S715/961; Y10S715/965; Y10S715/966; Y10S715/968
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
193 words
Apparatus for selecting an item from a group thereof in a system having display means and interactive movable pointing means for specifying a location in the display means and making a selection at a specified location, the apparatus comprising: filtration means including subgroup specifiers in the display means and responsive to selection of a subgroup specifier by the pointing means for filtering the group to produce the subgroup specified by the selected subgroup specifier; means for displaying representations of group items belonging to at least a portion of the subgroup in the display means; group item selection means for selecting a group item by selecting the representation thereof in the display in response to the pointing means; means for displaying a reduced representation of the entire subgroup and an indication in the reduced representation of the portion of the group being presently displayed by the display means; wherein said reduced representation is a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional representation, the third dimension being location within a logical stack of items having at least one common property; and wherein each item of a logical stack have viewing timeslot as one common property.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
193 words
Apparatus for selecting an item from a group thereof in a system having display means and interactive movable pointing means for specifying a location in the display means and making a selection at a specified location, the apparatus comprising: filtration means including subgroup specifiers in the display means and responsive to selection of a subgroup specifier by the pointing means for filtering the group to produce the subgroup specified by the selected subgroup specifier; means for displaying representations of group items belonging to at least a portion of the subgroup in the display means; group item selection means for selecting a group item by selecting the representation thereof in the display in response to the pointing means; means for displaying a reduced representation of the entire subgroup and an indication in the reduced representation of the portion of the group being presently displayed by the display means; wherein said reduced representation is a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional representation, the third dimension being location within a logical stack of items having at least one common property; and wherein each item of a logical stack have viewing timeslot as one common property.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
67 words
The apparatus set forth in claim 1, wherein said interactive movable pointing means includes a remote control having: a first pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a first direction; a second pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a second direction; and a third pair of buttons to control changes in location within the logical stack.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
236 words
Apparatus for selecting an item from a group thereof in a system having display means and interactive movable pointing means for specifying a location in the display means and making a selection at a specified location, the apparatus comprising: filtration means including subgroup specifiers in the display means and responsive to selection of a subgroup specifier by the pointing means for filtering the group to produce the subgroup specified by the selected subgroup specifier; means for displaying representations of group items belonging to the subgroup in the display means; group item selection means for selecting a group item by selecting the representation thereof in the display in response to the pointing means; and means for displaying a reduced representation of the entire subgroup and an indication in the reduced representation of the portion of the group being presently displayed by the display means; said reduced representation displaying means displaying a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional representation, a third dimension being represented as a logical stack of items having at least one common property and; said interactive movable pointing means includes a remote control having: a first pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a first direction; and a second pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a second direction; and a third pair of buttons to control changes in location within the logical stack.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
236 words
Apparatus for selecting an item from a group thereof in a system having display means and interactive movable pointing means for specifying a location in the display means and making a selection at a specified location, the apparatus comprising: filtration means including subgroup specifiers in the display means and responsive to selection of a subgroup specifier by the pointing means for filtering the group to produce the subgroup specified by the selected subgroup specifier; means for displaying representations of group items belonging to the subgroup in the display means; group item selection means for selecting a group item by selecting the representation thereof in the display in response to the pointing means; and means for displaying a reduced representation of the entire subgroup and an indication in the reduced representation of the portion of the group being presently displayed by the display means; said reduced representation displaying means displaying a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional representation, a third dimension being represented as a logical stack of items having at least one common property and; said interactive movable pointing means includes a remote control having: a first pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a first direction; and a second pair of buttons to control changes in location in the display in a second direction; and a third pair of buttons to control changes in location within the logical stack.
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