Patent ID: 9167190
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a media content processing subsystem configured to provide a program guide graphical user interface to a display for presentation to a user, the program guide graphical user interface including a portion of a program guide; wherein said media content processing subsystem is further configured to provide at least one navigation tool to the display in a portion of the program guide graphical user interface, the at least one navigation tool including a plurality of selectable options configured to change a focus of a selector to a location in the program guide, said media content processing subsystem being configured to detect a user selection of one of the selectable options and initiate a navigation to the location in the underlying program guide based on the selected option; wherein the program guide includes a plurality of content channels and wherein the navigation to the location includes said media content processing subsystem changing the focus of the selector from one subset of channels to a non-adjacent pre-selected subset of channels in response to receiving a first selected option associated with a selected category and a second selected option associated with a selected channel in the selected category, wherein the location in the underlying program guide is displayed in response to receiving the second selected option; and wherein the plurality of selectable options includes at least one of a plurality of content channel grouping options and a plurality of individual content channel options and wherein each of the content channel grouping options is associated with a pre-selected content channel included in a grouping of content channels included in the program guide.