Dynamic adjustment of electronic program guide displays based on viewer preferences for minimizing navigation in VOD program selection
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    Dynamic adjustment of electronic program guide displays based on viewer preferences for minimizing navigation in VOD program selection 有权
    基于观众喜好动态调整电子节目指南显示,以最大限度地减少VOD节目选择中的导航

    公开(公告)号:US09247308B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-26

    申请号:US13831042

    申请日:2013-03-14

    发明人: Milton Diaz Perez

    摘要: Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.

    摘要翻译: 在数字电视服务提供商的视频点播(VOD)平台上提供用于观看的视频内容的项目分别被分配对应于分级排列的类别和子类别的相应标题和分级地址,其中视频内容的标题是 被分类。 标题列在电子节目指南(EPG)的位置,使用与其分层地址相同的类别和子类别。 任何电视订阅者都可以访问EPG并浏览其类别和子类别,以便在电视上查找标题。 EPG动态调整每个级别的类别,子类别和标题的显示列表,以便最小化观众导航到感兴趣的标题所需的遥控按键的数量。 在一个基本形式中,通过首先列出更频繁访问的类别或子类别,以及在显示器的另一个页面上的列表或视野下的其他较不频繁访问的类别或子类别来重新排列EPG显示。

    System for adding or updating video content from internet sources to existing video-on-demand application of a digital TV services provider system

    公开(公告)号:US08978067B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-10

    申请号:US12852663

    申请日:2010-08-09

    申请人: Milton Diaz Perez

    发明人: Milton Diaz Perez

    摘要: A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include those for higher-order displays which have one or more links to lower-order displays of specific content. The VOD Application Server, in response to viewer request, displays a high-order templatized display, and in response to viewer selection of a link, displays the lower-order display of specific content. The hierarchical templatized displays enable viewers to navigate to an end subject of interest while having a unique visual experience of moving through a series of displays to the end subject of interest. For example, the higher-order display may be a product ad and the lower-order display may be an ad for a local retailer of the product. Similarly, a viewer can navigate from national product to local product ad, or classified ad category to specific classified ad, or bulletin board topic category to specific posting. In another embodiment, the VOD content delivery system is used to deliver consumer-generated classified ads on TV. A web-based Content Management System receives consumer-generated content uploaded online in industry-standard file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area, and displays a requested classified ad in response to viewer selection.