Patent ID: 9077947
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. On a computing device, a method of identifying scheduled content and on-demand content for presentation, the method comprising: detecting a trigger to perform a search for content items; providing, responsive to the trigger, a search request to one or more metadata sources, each metadata source containing information regarding locations of one or more of scheduled content items and on-demand content items at one or more content sources; receiving, responsive to the search request, from each metadata source a search response including metadata associated with available content at the one or more content sources; outputting a list of content items identifying one or more selected scheduled content items and one or more selected on-demand content items from the one or more metadata sources; determining whether a particular scheduled content item of the one or more selected scheduled content items is available from an on-demand content source; and during presentation of the particular scheduled content item, outputting a notification if the particular scheduled content item is available from the on-demand content source.