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

Claim 19:
20. A system comprising:
means for determining a first category of trending media content items, wherein the first category corresponds to a content type;
means for retrieving a user's viewing preference for a particular category of media content items, wherein the particular category corresponds to a content characteristic;
means for, in response to retrieving the user's viewing preference for the particular category of media content items, selecting 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;
means for generating 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;
means for causing an overlay comprising a plurality of selectable genre identifiers to be displayed, wherein the means for causing the overlay to be displayed comprises:
means for determining whether the computing device comprises a display of a relatively smaller size or a display of a relatively larger size;
means for, 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
means for, 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;

means for filtering 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
means for generating, 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.