Patent ID: 9462346
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a personalized channel guide to a user, comprising: receiving indications of types of content for which the user has an interest; accessing information about content that is available for viewing; generating a plurality of personalized channels for the user based on the received indications of the types of content for which the user has an interest and based on the information about content that is available for viewing, displaying a listing of at least two of the personalized channels arranged in a column along one of the left or right sides of a screen to thereby enable the user to select one of the personalized channels; displaying a listing of content associated with a single one of the personalized channels arranged in a row along one of the bottom or top sides of the screen, perpendicular to the column in which the listing of at least two of the personalized channels are arranged; and displaying, within a remaining portion of the screen, video content that the user most recently selected for viewing; wherein the remaining portion of the screen, in which the video content that the user most recently selected for viewing is being displayed, is bordered on a first side by the listing of the personalized channels arranged in the column and bordered on a second side, perpendicular to the first side, by the listing of content associated with the single one of the personalized channels arranged in the row; wherein the remaining portion of the screen, in which the video content that the user most recently selected for viewing is being displayed, comprises at least fifty percent of an entirety of the screen; and wherein the video content being displayed in the remaining portion of the screen is unimpeded by the listing of at least two of the personalized channels arranged in the column, and is also unimpeded by the listing of content associated with the single one of the personalized channels arranged in the row.