Patent ID: 8510780
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a media content processing subsystem configured to provide a program guide graphical user interface to a first subset area of a display for presentation to a user concurrently with a media content instance displayed on a second subset area of the display, 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 overlaid on 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; and 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, 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.