Patent ID: 9189141
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: sampling, by a system including a processor, media content scheduled for broadcast to obtain sampled media content; responsive to a request to customize an electronic programming guide, presenting, by the system, a graphical user interface having a window with a plurality of on-screen media channel indicators of a plurality of scrollable media channel indicators, wherein a first media channel indicator of the plurality of on-screen media channel indicators is accompanied by a thumbnail and a description associated with a first media channel corresponding to the first media channel indicator, wherein each thumbnail comprises video content selected from the sampled media content corresponding to the first media channel, wherein the video content of the thumbnail being presented in the graphical user interface is of a reduced quality and lower frame rate than the media content scheduled for broadcast on the first media channel; presenting, by the system in the graphical user interface, a first button to accept inclusion in the electronic programming guide of the first media channel and a second button to request additional information about the first media channel, wherein the additional information includes a description and an image of future broadcasting on the first media channel; and customizing, by the system, the electronic programming guide based on the first media channel responsive to detecting an assertion of the first button, wherein the sampling of the media content is not performed when the first media channel indicator is an off-screen media channel indicator of the plurality of scrollable media channel indicators and is performed only after the thumbnail of the first media channel indicator is depicted in the first window responsive to being scrolled up or down in the first window.