Application panel manager

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9820003-B2
Application number	US-201514945612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2015
Priority date	Aug 17, 2012
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

An Intelligent TV having a silo manager, a panel manager and a panel controller. The various managers and controllers managing a global panel and an application panel. The global panel includes various types of information and the various types of input and content available. The global panel includes various information including, for example, Live TV information, on demand information, media center information, application information, HDMI 1 information, HDMI 2 information, HDMI 3 information, component 1 information, component 2 information, AV 1 information, AV 2 information, VGA information, as well as an option to hide undetected inputs. The application panel is dynamic and can optionally change based on one or more of context and content of the underlying application being viewed. The application panel can include various subcategories of information, with the number and type of the subcategories also capable of being dynamic based on the underlying context or content.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of managing an application panel on an intelligent television (TV) comprising: displaying live TV content on the intelligent TV;
detecting, by a hardware processor, a request to invoke the application panel based on a selection of an application panel button on a remote control associated with the intelligent TV;
in response to the request, detecting, by the hardware processor, the displayed content on the intelligent TV;
determining, based on the detected displayed content, and, by the hardware processor, a type of content being displayed, wherein the type of content is at least one of an application and a video on demand;
displaying, by the hardware processor, the application panel on the intelligent TV, wherein the application panel covers at least a portion of the displayed content;
in response to the request, detecting, by the hardware processor, context information, wherein the context information is based at least on the determined type of displayed content and a location of the display of the application panel, wherein the location is along at least one edge of the display, wherein the application panel is associated with a silo, wherein the silo is at least one of a Live TV silo, an on-demand silo, a media center silo, and an applications silo;
determining, by the hardware processor, an information to display in the application panel based on both of the displayed content on the intelligent TV and the context information, wherein the determined information includes one or more of an information portion, a new portion, a recommended portion, a genre portion, an electronic program guide, a category portion, a favorites portion and a search portion; and
displaying, by the hardware processor, the determined information in the application panel on a display of the intelligent TV.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application panel hovers above background content and is partially transparent.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising continuing to display active background content.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the background content is Live TV, on demand content, media center content, applications or content from other inputs.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the application panel is dynamically updated based on the background content.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining and providing one or more sub-categories of information in the application panel.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining and providing one or more sub-categories of selectable information in the application panel.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application panel includes executable portions.

9. A system to manage an application panel on an intelligent television (TV) comprising:
a hardware processor adapted to detect a request to invoke the application panel based on a selection of an application panel button on a remote associated with the intelligent TV;
a hardware memory, in communication with the hardware processor, the hardware memory adapted to store a panel controller adapted to detect the displayed content on the intelligent TV, the panel controller further adapted to determine, based on the detected displayed content, a type of content being displayed, wherein the type of content is at least one of an application and a video on demand, the panel controller further adapted to detect context information, wherein the context information is based at least on the determined type of displayed content and a location of the application panel, wherein the location is along at least one edge of the display, wherein the application panel is associated with a silo, wherein the silo is at least one of a Live TV silo, an on-demand silo, a media center silo, and an applications silo;
the hardware memory adapted to store a silo application adapted to determine an information to display in the application panel based on both of the displayed content on the intelligent TV and the context information, wherein the determined information includes one or more of an information portion, a new portion, a recommendation portion, a genre portion, an electronic program guide, a category portion, a favorites portion and a search portion; and
a display controller adapted to display live TV content and the determined information in the application panel on a display of the intelligent TV.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the application panel hovers above background content and is partially transparent.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein active background content is displayed.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the background content is Live TV, on demand content, media center content, applications or content from other inputs.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the application panel is dynamically updated based on the background content.

14. The system of claim 9 , further comprising a content presentation service adapted to determine and provide one or more sub-categories of information in the application panel.

15. The system of claim 9 , a content presentation service adapted to determine and provide one or more sub-categories of selectable information in the application panel.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the application panel includes executable portions.

17. A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, cause to be performed:
displaying live TV content on the intelligent TV;
detecting a request to invoke the application panel based on a selection of an application panel button on a remote control associated with the intelligent TV;
in response to the request, detecting the displayed content on the intelligent TV;
determining, based on the detected displayed content, a type of content being displayed, wherein the type of content is at least one of an application and a video on demand,
displaying the application panel on the intelligent TV, wherein the application panel covers at least a portion of the displayed content;
in response to the request, detecting context information, wherein the context information is based at least on the determined type of displayed content and a location of the display of the application panel, wherein the location is along at least one edge of the display, wherein the application panel is associated with a silo, wherein the silo is at least one of a Live TV silo, an on-demand silo, and an applications silo;
determining an information to display in the application panel based on both of the displayed content on the intelligent TV and the context information, wherein the determined information includes one or more of an information portion, a new portion, a recommended portion, a genre portion, an electronic program guide, a category portion, a favorites portion and a search portion; and
displaying the determined information in the application panel on a display of the intelligent TV.

18. The non-transitory computer readable information storage media of claim 17 , wherein the application panel hovers above background content and is partially transparent.

19. The non-transitory computer readable information storage media of claim 18 , further comprising continuing to display active background content.

Assignees

• Flextronics Ap Llc

Inventors

• Milano Eduardo Diego Torres
• Burdzinski Gregory
• Lee Todd
• Visosky John S
• Chen Tong
• Voth Terrance D

Classifications

• H04N21/251

  Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies (details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08) · CPC title

• H04N21/44213

  Monitoring of end-user related data (arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33) · CPC title

• H04N21/2187

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04N21/4882

  for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders (arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895) · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

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