公开(公告)号：US09812174B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-07

申请号：US15018744

申请日：2016-02-08

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Robert Vallone ,  Howard Look ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G11B19/02 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/79 ,  H04N9/806 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N9/87 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/485

CPC classification number: G11B27/34 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/04847 ,  G11B19/025 ,  G11B27/005 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/102 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/455 ,  H04N5/44513 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/7921 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N9/8063 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N9/8715 ,  H04N21/4104 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4424 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/485 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4882

Abstract: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being recorded. Index and/or bookmark indicators are displayed next to the cache bar. A position indicator moves within the cache bar and tells the user visually where his current position is within the program material. Numeric time or counter mark of the current position is displayed in the vicinity of the cache bar. The trick play bar and its associated components are displayed for a predetermined time period.

公开(公告)号：US20170251266A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15594902

申请日：2017-05-15

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Howard Look ,  Robert Vallone ,  David Avraham Brown ,  Karen Bedard ,  Wijnand Van Stam ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N21/431

CPC classification number: H04N21/47217 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/455 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/44582 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/7921 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N9/8063 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N21/4312 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/4668 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4756 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/4882

Abstract: A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item.

公开(公告)号：US10587925B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15594902

申请日：2017-05-15

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Howard Look ,  Robert Vallone ,  David Avraham Brown ,  Karen Bedard ,  Wijnand Van Stam ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/472 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/79 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N9/806 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/488

Abstract: A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item.

公开(公告)号：US20190253767A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-15

申请号：US16379427

申请日：2019-04-09

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Paul Westbrook ,  Howard Look ,  James Young ,  Stephen Lacy ,  Timothy Davison ,  James M. Barton

IPC: H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/218

CPC classification number: H04N21/6543 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N7/162 ,  H04N21/2181 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4516 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/8586

Abstract: A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The viewer may request that certain content be captured. Capture requests also allow the service to determine content to be recorded by the client system in the same manner that a viewer requests that certain content are recorded but are more powerful than what a viewer can request. Recording requests for a capture request can preempt viewer requests or be entered at the same or lower priority as a viewer request. Capture requests can adjust all aspects of a recording request and affect the capture request itself. Client system operational functionality are also manipulated by the service using capture requests.

公开(公告)号：US10181338B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US15805084

申请日：2017-11-06

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Robert Vallone ,  Howard Look ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G11B19/02 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/79 ,  H04N9/806 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N9/87 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/485

Abstract: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being recorded. Index and/or bookmark indicators are displayed next to the cache bar. A position indicator moves within the cache bar and tells the user visually where his current position is within the program material. Numeric time or counter mark of the current position is displayed in the vicinity of the cache bar. The trick play bar and its associated components are displayed for a predetermined time period.

公开(公告)号：US10306331B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15365917

申请日：2016-11-30

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Paul Westbrook ,  Howard Look ,  James Young ,  Stephen Lacy ,  Timothy Davison ,  James M. Barton

IPC: H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/858

Abstract: A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The viewer may request that certain content be captured. Capture requests also allow the service to determine content to be recorded by the client system in the same manner that a viewer requests that certain content are recorded but are more powerful than what a viewer can request. Recording requests for a capture request can preempt viewer requests or be entered at the same or lower priority as a viewer request. Capture requests can adjust all aspects of a recording request and affect the capture request itself. Client system operational functionality are also manipulated by the service using capture requests.

公开(公告)号：US20180190326A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-05

申请号：US15805084

申请日：2017-11-06

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Robert Vallone ,  Howard Look ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/034 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/76

CPC classification number: G11B27/34 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/04847 ,  G11B19/025 ,  G11B27/005 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/102 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/455 ,  H04N5/44513 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/7921 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N9/8063 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N9/8715 ,  H04N21/4104 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4424 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/485 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4882

Abstract: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being recorded. Index and/or bookmark indicators are displayed next to the cache bar. A position indicator moves within the cache bar and tells the user visually where his current position is within the program material. Numeric time or counter mark of the current position is displayed in the vicinity of the cache bar. The trick play bar and its associated components are displayed for a predetermined time period.