Patent ID: 11917255
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system for presenting media content corresponding to a channel change request, the system comprising:
a hardware processor that:
retrieves thumbnail content items, wherein the thumbnail content items include an animated representation of undecoded media content from a corresponding content source;
in response to interacting with a thumbnail content item, as a referenced thumbnail, from the retrieved thumbnail content items, causes the animated representation of the media content of the referenced thumbnail to replace displayed media content being presented in a display area by resizing the animated representation from a first size to a second size corresponding to a size of media content being presented in the display area while concurrently processing media content associated with the referenced thumbnail from the corresponding content source that includes decoding media data corresponding to the media content; and
replaces the animated representation of the media content being presented in the display area with the processed media content.