Patent ID: 8701041
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system to provide recommendations with respect to content items available for viewing, the system comprising: a presentation module configured to present main content on a display screen that has multiple margins; a communications module configured to receive first and second requests associated with a first directional key on a remote control device that is remote from the display screen and configured to remotely control the main content presented on the display screen, the first directional key corresponding to a margin among the multiple margins of the display screen; a navigation mode detector configured to identify a navigation mode associated with the first directional key; and a processor configured by a margin menu module to display a recommendation menu associated with the identified navigation mode, the recommendation menu corresponding to the margin of the display screen and being presented along the margin of the display screen, the recommendation menu responding to the first request from the remote control device by presenting a first recommendation recommended based on the main content, the recommendation menu responding to the second request from the remote control device by present in the first recommendation within a hierarchical arrangement with a second recommendation recommended based on the first recommendation.