Unified Grid Programming Guide for Time-Scheduled and On-Demand Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices often fail to display both time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers in a single grid-based programming guide, leading to increased computing resource usage and user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A device generates a grid-based programming guide that separates time-scheduled and on-demand content into distinct grids within the same graphical user interface, allowing users to access both types of content seamlessly, conserving resources and improving user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If devices display time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers in separate programming guides, then users can access content from different providers, but users must switch between guides and computing resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate programming guides (time-scheduled and on-demand content from different providers) into a single unified programming guide interface. This merging eliminates the need for users to switch between separate guides while maintaining access to all content types from multiple providers, thereby reducing user interaction steps and computing resource consumption associated with managing multiple separate guides.
2Adaptability or versatility
If devices display time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers in separate programming guides, then users can access content from different providers, but computing and memory resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate programming guide instances into a single unified guide that displays both time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers simultaneously. This consolidation reduces the computational overhead of maintaining and rendering multiple separate guide structures, thereby conserving computing and memory resources while preserving full content access capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified programming guide implements multi-functionality by handling both time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers within a single interface structure. This universal approach allows the system to use one resource-efficient guide instance to serve multiple content access functions, rather than requiring separate specialized guides for each content type and provider.
3Ease of operation
If devices display time-scheduled and on-demand content from multiple providers in a single grid-based programming guide, then user interaction is reduced and resources are conserved, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by organizing the unified programming guide into distinct grid sections or rows that separate time-scheduled content from on-demand content, and further segment by content provider. This structured segmentation allows the complex multi-provider, multi-content-type guide to maintain visual organization and ease of navigation despite the increased information density, thereby managing interface complexity while preserving user interaction benefits.
Data Source
AI summary
A device can provide a first instruction to display a grid-based programming guide in a graphical user interface (GUI). The grid-based programming guide can include a plurality of time-scheduled content providers and a plurality of time-scheduled content elements, and a plurality of on-demand content providers and a plurality of on-demand content elements. The device can receive an input associated with a first on-demand content provider, can establish, based on receiving the input, a session with a content platform associated with the first on-demand content provider, and can provide, based on establishing the session with the content provider, a second instruction to display the content in the GUI via the session with the content provider.