Animated station identifier in program guides
View Patent ↗A television program guide is displayed having a station identifier portion in a first location. A determination is made as to when a user navigates in the television program guide between past programs and future programs. In response to the user navigating in the television program guide between the past programs and the future programs, the station identifier portion is changed to a second location.
1. One or more computer-readable storage devices having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, perform a method comprising:
causing display of a television program guide having a station identifier portion on one side of the television program guide, the station identifier portion identifying one or more television channels in the television program guide for which data is displayed;
determining when a user navigates in the television program guide from past programs to future programs; and
changing display of the station identifier portion to a different side of the television program guide in response to the user navigating in the television program guide from the past programs to the future programs.
2. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 1 , wherein the television program guide comprises a grid having multiple rows of channel identifiers and multiple columns of time slots, and wherein the station identifier portion is a column in the grid.
3. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 1 , wherein the one side comprises a right side of the television program guide, and the different side comprises a left side of the television program guide.
4. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 1 , wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed, perform a method further comprising:
determining when the user navigates in the television program guide from the future programs to past programs; and
changing display the station identifier portion to the one side of the television program guide in response to the user navigating in the television program guide from the future programs to the past programs.
5. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 4 , wherein the determining when the user navigates in the television program guide from the future programs to the past programs comprises determining when focus is placed on the station identifier portion while the station identifier portion is on the different side of the television program guide.
6. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 4 , wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed, perform a method further comprising:
determining when focus is placed on the station identifier portion while navigating from the future programs towards the past programs; and
causing display of an indication for each channel identified in the station identifier portion for which one or more television programs that have already aired are available in response to the user focusing on the station identifier portion while navigating from the future programs towards the past programs.
7. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 6 , wherein the indication that one or more television programs that have already aired are available for a channel comprises an indicator in the station identifier portion for the channel.
8. The one or more computer-readable storage devices as recited in claim 6 , wherein the indication that one or more television programs that have already aired are available for a channel comprises a part of a next time slot in the past in which a preview of at least one of the one or more television programs is displayed.
9. A computer-implemented method comprising:
causing display of a station identifier column on one side of a television program guide displayed on a display of a television device when the television program guide displays television program guide data for one or more future programs; and
causing display of the station identifier column on a different side of the television program guide displayed on the display of the television device when the television program guide displays television program guide data for one or more programs that have already aired.
10. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the one side of the television program guide comprises a left side of the television program guide, and wherein the different side of the television program guide comprises a right side of the television program guide.
11. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the causing display of the station identifier column on the different side of the television program guide is performed in response to navigation from the one or more future programs to the one or more programs that have already aired.
12. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising displaying the station identifier column at a location between the one side of the television program guide and the different side of the television program guide in response to navigation from the one or more future programs to the one or more programs that have already aired.
13. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising:
determining when a focus is placed on the station identifier column while displayed on the one side of the grid; and
displaying, in response to the focus, an indication for each channel identified in the station identifier column for which one or more television programs that have already aired are available.
14. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13 , wherein the indication that one or more television programs that have already aired are available for a channel comprises an indicator in the station identifier column for the channel.
15. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13 , wherein the indication that one or more television programs that have already aired are available for a channel comprises a part of a next time slot in the past in which a preview of at least one of the one or more television programs is displayed.
16. A computing device comprising:
at least a memory and a processor to implement a program guide module, the program guide module configured to:
cause display of a station identifier portion at a first location in a television program guide, the station identifier portion identifying one or more television channels in the television program guide for which data is displayed;
receive a request to navigate in the television program guide from future programs to past programs; and
cause display of the station identifier portion at a second location in the television program guide in response to the request to navigate in the television program guide from the future programs to the past programs.
17. The computing device as recited in claim 16 , wherein the television program guide comprises a grid having multiple rows of channel identifiers and multiple columns of time slots, and wherein the station identifier portion is a column in the grid.
18. The computing device as recited in claim 16 , wherein the first location comprises a side of the television program guide, and wherein the second location comprises a middle of the television program guide.
19. The computing device as recited in claim 16 , wherein the first location comprises a left side of the television program guide, and wherein the second location comprises a right side of the television program guide.
20. The computing device as recited in claim 16 , wherein the program guide module is further configured to:
receive a request to navigate in the television program guide from the past programs to the future programs; and
cause display of the station identifier portion at the first location in the television program guide in response to the request to navigate in the television program guide from the past programs to the future programs.