Program Guide Interface Pinch Gesture Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional program guide interfaces are inefficient due to limited navigation options and rigid channel organization, making it time-consuming for users to access desired channels, and lack customizable features, resulting in an unintuitive user experience.
Innovation Solution
A program guide interface that utilizes touch gestures, such as pinch and reverse pinch gestures, to provide jump points for quick access to channel groups, allowing users to customize channel groups based on preferences, social media activity, and mood, and dynamically update channel listings for convenient navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional program guide interfaces use rigid numerical organization of channels, then channel listing is simple and systematic, but navigation becomes time-consuming and frustrating for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large set of channels into smaller, meaningful groups based on user-defined criteria such as genre, time of day, or personal preferences. This segmentation allows users to navigate to desired channels more quickly by selecting from organized groups rather than scrolling through hundreds of individual channels numerically ordered.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic channel grouping that can adapt and reorganize based on user behavior, time of day, or other variables. Channel groups are not static but can be dynamically created, modified, and reordered to optimize navigation efficiency based on changing user needs and viewing patterns.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional program guide interfaces provide limited navigation options, then interface design is simple, but user experience becomes impersonal and unintuitive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically analyzing user viewing patterns, preferences, and behavior to pre-organize channels into personalized groups before the user needs to navigate. This preliminary customization reduces the apparent complexity for the user while providing highly adaptable navigation tailored to their specific needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically creating and updating channel groups based on user behavior without requiring manual configuration. The interface adapts to user needs autonomously, learning from viewing patterns and automatically reorganizing channels, thereby providing versatility without increasing operational complexity for the user.
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AI summary
Exemplary program guide interface systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes a mobile device presenting a program guide interface by way of a touch screen, detecting a pinch gesture provided in relation to the program guide interface, and presenting, in response to the pinch gesture, a plurality of graphical objects representative of a plurality of media programming channel groups. Corresponding methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.