Patent ID: 11861095
Assignee: DISH NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions configurable to cause at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
controlling display of a media player on a touchscreen display of an electronic device to playback a media program in conjunction with one or more control elements;
in response to a first trigger event applied by a user of the electronic device during playback of the media program, controlling display of an interactive lock element on the touchscreen display;
detecting an occurrence of an activate lock trigger event when the user of the electronic device interacts with the interactive lock element of the touchscreen display;
in response to detecting the occurrence of the activate lock trigger event, locking at least some touchscreen functionality of the media player and hiding at least some of the one or more control elements while continuing playback of the media program and otherwise ceasing the display of the interactive lock element on the touchscreen display;
in response to a subsequent detection of another occurrence of the first trigger event while the at least some touchscreen functionality is locked, once again controlling the display of the interactive lock element on the touchscreen display;
detecting an occurrence of a deactivate lock trigger event when the user of the electronic device interacts with the interactive lock element on the touchscreen display; and
in response to detecting the occurrence of the deactivate lock trigger event, unlocking the at least some touchscreen functionality of the media player.