User interfaces for interacting with channels that provide content that plays in a media browsing application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020304876-A1
Application number	US-201916584790-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 26, 2019
Priority date	Mar 24, 2019
Publication date	Sep 24, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a plurality of representations of content items that are available on a respective channel in response to successfully subscribing the respective channel. In some embodiments, an electronic device plays content that is provided by a channel in a unified media browsing application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about subscribing to a channel based on content consumption activity of the user on the electronic device in accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure.

First claim

1 . A method comprising:
at an electronic device in communication with a display and one or more input devices:
displaying, on the display, a user interface of a media browsing application that includes content accessible from one or more content providers, wherein the user interface includes a first region that includes one or more representations of content accessible on the electronic device, and a second region, separate from the first region, that includes one or more representations of one or more channels available for subscription in the media browsing application;
while displaying the user interface, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to subscribe to a first channel of the one or more channels; and
in response to receiving the input:
initiating a process to subscribe to the first channel on the electronic device; and
in accordance with a determination that subscription to the first channel was successful, updating the user interface to:
include a third region, separate from the first region and the second region, that includes a plurality of representations of content accessible on the electronic device from the first channel, including a first representation of a first content item from the first channel that is selectable to initiate a process to display the first content item on the display, and a second representation of a second content item from the first channel that is selectable to initiate a process to display the second content item on the display; and
remove the representation of the first channel from the second region.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the one or more representations of content accessible on the electronic device in the first region and the one or more representations of the one or more channels in the second region are displayed as separate rows in the user interface.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein:
in accordance with a determination that the one or more channels includes a plurality of channels, the second region includes a full representation of a first respective channel in the plurality of channels and a portion of a representation of a second respective channel in the plurality of channels, wherein the current focus moves from the full representation of the first respective channel to the representation of the second respective channel in response to scrolling input received at the one or more input devices; and in accordance with a determination that the one or more channels consists of a single channel, the second region includes a full representation of the single channel without including representations of other channels.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the first channel is a channel whose content is viewable within the media browsing application or within a respective application, separate from the media browsing application, and the process to subscribe to the first channel includes displaying a selectable option for linking to the media browsing application an existing subscription to the first channel, the existing subscription used to view the content from the first channel in the respective application.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
in accordance with a determination that a user of the electronic device has subscribed to less than a predetermined number of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application, the second region includes a plurality of representations of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application, and in accordance with a determination that the user of the electronic device has subscribed to more than the predetermined number of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application, the second region includes a single representations of a channel available for subscription in the media browsing application without including other representations of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to subscribe to the first channel:
in accordance with the determination that the subscription to the first channel was successful, updating the user interface includes:
in accordance with the second region including the plurality of representations of channels available for subscription prior to receiving the input corresponding to the request to subscribe to the first channel, maintaining display, in the user interface, of the second region and one or more representations of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application; and
in accordance with the second region including the single representations of the channel available for subscription in the media browsing application without including other representations of channels available for subscription in the media browsing application, ceasing display, in the user interface, of the second region.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
content of a first type and content of a second type, different from the first type, are accessible from the media browsing application, in accordance with a determination that the user interface corresponds to content of the first type and not content of the second type, the one or more channels are first one or more channels on which content of the first type is available, and in accordance with a determination that the user interface corresponds to content of the second type and not content of the first type, the one or more channels are second one or more channels on which content of the second type is available, the first one or more channels different than the second one or more channels.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
content of a first type and content of a second type, different from the first type, are accessible from the media browsing application, in accordance with a determination that the user interface corresponds to content of the first type and not content of the second type, the plurality of representations of the content accessible on the electronic device from the first channel in the third region of the user interface include a plurality of representations of content of the first type without including representations of content of the second type, and in accordance with a determination that the user interface corresponds to content of the second type and not content of the first type, the plurality of representations of the content accessible on the electronic device from the first channel in the third region of the user interface include a plurality of representations of content of the second type without including representations of content of the first type.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
in accordance with a determination that a content consumption history of a user of the electronic device is a first content consumption activity, the plurality of representations of the content accessible on the electronic device from the first channel in the third region of the user interface include first one or more representations of first content, and in accordance with a determination that a content consumption history of a user of the electronic device is a second content consumption activity, different than the first content consumption history, the plurality of representations of the content accessible on the electronic device from the first channel in the third region of the user interface include second one or more representations of second content, different than the first content.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the representation of the first channel in the second region includes a selectable option, in accordance w

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Cielak Matthew J
• Evashevski Michael
• Domm Drew R
• Vinna Fredric
• Grossman Alexander
• Moretti David
• Tan-Ang Jeff

Classifications

• H04N21/4823

  using a channel name · CPC title

• H04N21/47202 Primary

  for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0481 Primary

  based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance · CPC title