Patent ID: 11936957
Assignee: TIVO SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A system comprising:
a computer memory storing instructions; and
control circuitry configured to execute the instructions stored in the computer memory to:
determine a first category of trending media content items, wherein the first category corresponds to a content type;
retrieve a user's viewing preference for a particular category of media content items, wherein the particular category corresponds to a content characteristic;
in response to retrieving the user's viewing preference for the particular category of media content items, select a first portion of media content items from the first category of trending media content items based on the user's viewing preference, wherein the first selected portions of media content items correspond to the particular category;
generate, for display at a computing device, identifiers for the first selected portion of media content items along with first information identifying the first category of trending media content items;
cause an overlay comprising a plurality of selectable genre identifiers to be displayed, wherein causing the overlay to be displayed comprises:
determining whether the computing device comprises a display of a relatively smaller size or a display of a relatively larger size;
in response to determining that the computing device comprises a display of a relatively smaller size, causing the overlay to be of a first size and causing the overlay of the first size to obscure each of the displayed identifiers for the first selected portion of media content items; and
in response to determining that the computing device comprises a display of a relatively larger size, causing the overlay to be of a second size,
wherein a first ratio of the first size to a size of the display of the computing device of the relatively smaller size exceeds a second ratio of the second size to a size of the display of the computing device of the relatively larger size;

filter the first selected portions of media content items based on a genre corresponding to a particular genre identifier, of the plurality of selectable genre identifiers, that is selected via a user interface; and
generate, for display at the computing device, the filtered portion of media content items for the first category of trending media content items, along with the first information.