Patent ID: 9467743
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a user device and from a network device, a content index of content items available for presentation; presenting, by the user device, a user interface to configure a personalized channel plan, wherein the user interface includes a scheduling grid with a linear presentation of time slots for creating the personalized channel plan and a drag-and-drop interface to populate a content item selection from the content index into the scheduling grid; receiving, by the user device and via the user interface, user input to configure the personalized channel plan, wherein the personalized channel plan includes content item selections from the content index, selected time slots for the content item selections, and a viewing device selection for presentation of selected content items, wherein the viewing device is different than the user device; sending, by the user device and to an application server, the content item selections, a presentation schedule, and the viewing device selection for the personalized channel plan; receiving, by the user device and from the application server, content links for the selected content items in the personalized channel plan, wherein at least some of the content links include tuning instructions or a uniform resource locator (URL) for a private managed network that provides guaranteed quality-of-service (QoS) levels for delivering the selected content items to the viewing device; and sending, by the user device and to the viewing device, instructions for the personalized channel plan, wherein the instructions include the content links and cause the viewing device to obtain the selected content items and present the selected content items to the user at the selected time slots.