Patent ID: 9426527
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing video-on-demand (VOD) in an intelligent television, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor of the intelligent television, content for two or more items of VOD content; determining, by the processor, metadata characteristics for the two or more items of VOD content; creating, by the processor, a file for each item of VOD content; storing, by the processor, the metadata characteristics with the content in the file in a database for each of the two or more items of VOD content; receiving, by the processor, a criteria to sort the two or more items of VOD content, wherein the criteria is associated with three or more metadata characteristics, wherein the metadata characteristics include one or more of a location at which the content was created, a time at which the content was created, or a genre associated with the content; and providing, by the processor, a first view of two or more thumbnails associated with each of the sorted two or more items of VOD content based on the metadata characteristic and criteria, wherein the first view includes two or more thumbnails associated with the two or more items of VOD content, and wherein the first view is sorted based on at least three of the metadata characteristics.