Patent ID: 7130846
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a first character that is contained in a first position of a character string that is associated with a searched-for content item; locating one or more content items in one or more content databases that include the first character in a respective first position of one or more character strings that are associated with the one or more content items; displaying at least one of the character strings associated with the located database content items in a content item field on a user interface, the at least one character string being selectable from the content item field; determining a second character that appears most often in a second position of each located database content item, the second position being positioned immediately subsequent to the first position of the character strings; displaying the second character on the user interface independently from the at least one character string displayed in the content item field, the second character being selectable from the user interface; and wherein more than one of the character strings are displayed, wherein at least one of the character strings identifies a content item having a particular preference attribute, wherein the character strings are sorted so that character strings associated with a content item having the particular preference attribute are displayed before characters strings associated with a content item that does not have the particular preference attribute, and wherein each of the character strings is associated with a television-based channel on which the content item associated with the character string may be accessed.