Patent ID: 9510024
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system for early media buffering using prediction of user behavior, comprising: a client device, including a processor; an application user interface provided at the client device, which displays a plurality of media options as a two-dimensional array of media tiles, including displaying portions of representations of one or more neighboring media items within the two-dimensional array of media tiles that are adjacent a currently selected media option, wherein each media option is associated with a corresponding media content that can be received from a media server system for playing at one or more of the client device, or a controlled device, and wherein a selection of a particular media option is used as an instruction to the media server system to stream or otherwise return a particular item of media content corresponding to the selection; a user interaction sensor provided at the client device, which detects when a user is about to interact with the client device; and a user prediction logic provided at the client device, which, in response to receiving an indication from the user interaction sensor that the user is about to interact with the client device, determines that the user may subsequently select one of the media tiles that are adjacent the currently selected media option, and triggers the media server system to buffer media content associated with one or more neighboring media options displayed on the user interface, in preparation for selection by the user, including that