Patent ID: 9271030
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a media content processing subsystem, a program guide graphical user interface to a display for presentation to a user, the program guide graphical user interface including selecting, by the media content processing subsystem based on a video content placement preference predefined by the user, the first unselected cell over the second unselected cell for placement of video content; providing, by the media content processing subsystem to the display, video content for playback within the first unselected cell, the video content representing a first media content instance included in the plurality of media content instances and associated with a first time slot and a channel corresponding to a first location of the first unselected cell along the time axis and the channel axis; and providing, by the media content processing subsystem to the display, non-video content for display within the second unselected cell, the non-video content representing a second media content instance included in the plurality of media content instances and associated with a second time slot and a channel corresponding to a second location of the second unselected cell along the time axis and the channel axis.