Patent ID: 9392207
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a widget service in a display apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of widget items corresponding to the widget service corresponding to a single channel; arranging the plurality of widget items; displaying the arranged plurality of widget items in an area on a screen of the display apparatus; receiving a user command for changing a size of the area; determining a subset of the plurality of widget items, in response to the user command; rearranging the determined subset of the plurality of widget items; and displaying the rearranged subset of the plurality of widget items in the size-changed area, wherein at least one of the receiving and the displaying is performed using a processor, and wherein a number of widget items included in the determined subset is less than a number of widget items included in the plurality of widget items, and is determined based on the size of the size-changed area.