Patent ID: 9032440
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling the program selection at the receiver of at least one broadcast medium, the method comprising the steps of: in a processor of the receiver, managing a list of preferred programs in accordance with predetermined criteria, and in which at least a part of the criteria is based on information about a program evaluation by other users of the broadcast medium, enquiring, separately, to at least one of the other users for input; allowing the user, using a control unit, to navigate through the list of preferred programs in accordance with the predetermined criteria; and wherein programs with content fulfilling a temporally limited criterion are positioned at a distance from a current navigation position in the list, which distance corresponds to a remaining duration of the criterion, wherein a program with content fulfilling a temporally limited criterion is a program containing a block of commercials and the program is positioned at a distance from the current navigation position in the list until the block of commercials has ended.