Patent ID: 8935728
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a media content processing subsystem configured to provide a program guide graphical user interface to a display for presentation to a user, the program guide graphical user interface displaying a portion of a program guide; wherein said media content processing subsystem is further configured to provide at least one navigation tool 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 new location in the program guide, said media content processing subsystem being configured to detect an event indicating a selected option from the plurality of selectable options and initiating a navigation to the new location in the underlying program guide based on the selected option; wherein the program guide includes a plurality of content channels and a plurality of content channel groupings; and wherein the plurality of selectable options includes a plurality of content channel grouping options where each of the content channel grouping options are associated with a pre-selected content channel included in the grouping of content channels, and where the navigation to the new location in the underlying program guide for when the plurality of content channel grouping option is selected includes said media content processing subsystem changing the focus of the selector in response to receiving a first selected option and a second selected option, where the first selected option is associated with a selected category and the second selected option is associated with a selected channel in the selected category.