公开(公告)号：US08510779B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-13

申请号：US11532286

申请日：2006-09-15

申请人： Louis P. Slothouber ,  Aaron Yong Ye

发明人： Louis P. Slothouber ,  Aaron Yong Ye

IPC分类号： H04N5/445

CPC分类号： H04N5/44543 ,  G06F8/38 ,  H04N5/44591 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/4431 ,  H04N21/4437 ,  H04N21/4438 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4886 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/8173

摘要： A system, method and software program is provided for creating and implementing self-contained mini-applications that store, retrieve and display data and allow user interaction in a constrained computing environment such as a set-top box used in the delivery of digital television. The system, method and software program of the present invention, also known as “TV widgets” allows users to personalize data and facilitate the access of such data with a click of a button from a remote control unit. The TV widgets include a myriad of widgets of which some are, “My 8 ball”, a widget that recommends television programming to a viewer, “My TV search” for searching specific television programs, “My Weather”, “My Yellow Pages”, “Smart Navigation”, “Instant Messaging with Smart User Interface”, as well as others. A TV widget framework provides user interface context for launching and managing the widgets, in addition, it maintains a library code that implements the TV widget components. Among the implementations of the TV widgets is a widget based TV navigator created as a collection of widgets from conventional grid guides and navigators that include a grid guide widget, a “what's on now” widget (sorted by channel), a movie recommendation widget among others.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统，方法和软件程序，用于创建和实现存储，检索和显示数据的自包含的微型应用程序，并允许用户在受限的计算环境中进行交互，例如数字电视传送中使用的机顶盒。 本发明的系统，方法和软件程序也被称为“TV小部件”，允许用户通过从遥控单元的按钮的点击来个性化数据并便于访问这些数据。 电视小部件包括无数的小部件，其中有些是“我的8球”，这是一个向观众推荐电视节目的小部件，“我的电视搜索”用于搜索特定的电视节目“我的天气”，“我的黄页” ，“智能导航”，“智能用户界面即时通讯”等。 电视窗口小部件框架提供用于启动和管理窗口小部件的用户界面上下文，此外，它还维护实现电视窗口部件组件的库代码。 电视小部件的实现是基于小部件的电视导航器，其作为来自常规网格指南和导航器的小部件的集合而创建，其包括网格指导小部件，“现在在做的”小部件（按频道排序），电影推荐小部件 其他。