Patent ID: 11863847
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A system, comprising:
communication circuitry configured to access a server for receiving a content stream for display on a primary device; and
control circuitry configured to:
receive a search term via an interface of a device;
perform a search using the received search term to receive search results comprising content items that match the search term;
categorize the content items into a first subset of content items and second subset of content items;
select a plurality of types of visual indicators based on the search term, wherein each type of visual indicator is associated with a plurality of attributes;
randomly assign each type of the visual indicator, of the plurality of types of visual indicators, to one of the first subset of content items and second subset of content items; and
generate for simultaneous display, by the media guidance application, a first set of identifiers for the first subset of content items and a second set of identifiers for the second subset of content items, wherein:
the first set of identifiers is visually distinguished from the second subset by identifiers based on the randomly assigned types of visual indicators to each of the first subset of content items and the second subset of content items;
indicators within each of the first and second subsets are further visually distinguished from each other based on attributes associated with the visual indicator assigned to their subset, wherein, an attribute, from the plurality of attributes associated with the visual indicator, is popularity and visually distinguishing between the first and second subsets is based on the popularity of media assets within each first and second subsets; and
the first set of identifiers associated with a higher popularity are generated with less transparency and first set of identifiers associated with a lesser popularity are generated with more transparency.