Patent ID: 9344763
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of returning target scenes associated with a plurality of video programs, said method comprising the steps of: displaying a plurality of icons on a user interface, wherein each icon represents a video program; receiving a user link request for a video program by selecting an icon on the user interface; comparing said received user link request for said selected video program to a plurality of entries of said plurality of video programs in a dynamic hierarchical lookup table; for each entry in the plurality of entries of said plurality of video programs in the dynamic lookup table that matches the received user link request for said selected video program, identifying a target scene that corresponds to the matched entry of said selected video program in the dynamic hierarchical lookup table; determining a closest one of the target scenes if multiple entries and multiple locations of said selected video program in the dynamic hierarchical lookup table match the user link request for said selected video program; transitioning to the closest target scene; and displaying said selected video program on said user interface, wherein the selected video program and the video program represented by the user link request have at least one of similar story lines, similar genre and common actors.