Patent ID: 9736545
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: sampling, by a processing system including a processor, media content scheduled for broadcast to obtain sampled media content; responsive to a request to update an electronic programming guide, presenting, by the processing system, a graphical user interface displaying a plurality of on-screen media channel indicators of a plurality of scrollable media channel indicators, presenting, by the processing system, selectable elements in the graphical user interface to facilitate selection of one or more media channels associated with the plurality of on-screen media channel indicators for inclusion in the electronic programming guide; detecting, by the processing system, a scrolling action applied to the plurality of scrollable media channel indicators resulting in an on-screen media channel indicator of the plurality of on-screen media channel indicators no longer being displayed in the graphical user interface; and resampling, by the processing system, the media content to obtain updated sampled media content, wherein the updated sampled media content does not include video content for the thumbnail of the on-screen media channel indicator that is no longer displayed in the graphical user interface.