Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating content selection
View Patent ↗An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates selection of content for play out pursuant to a media service at a device having media player functionality. A set of content streams are identified together with exemplars. Representations of the selected set are displayed at a display element, providing for selection of content therefrom. An indication of selection of content is detected and used in subsequent set identification and display.
1. An apparatus for facilitating content selection at an electronic device, the apparatus comprising:
a display configured to display an indication of each content stream of a set of content streams available from a media server;
a monitor configured to detect selection of a displayed indication of a particular content stream in the set of content streams; and
a content stream identifier configured to identify at least one updated content stream, available from the media server, related to content played out in response to the selection of the displayed indication;
wherein the display is further configured to display an indication of the at least one updated content stream in the displayed set of content streams.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the media server is a source of streaming media.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the display is further configured to display an exemplar associated for each content stream in the set of content streams, wherein each exemplar is a visual indication of content of a respective content stream.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the monitor is further configured to detect an indication of interest based on the selection of the displayed indication.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the content stream identifier is further configured to identify the at least one updated content stream based on the indication of interest.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the selection detected by the monitor comprises an indication of selected media content to be played out at the electronic device.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the content stream identifier is configured to identify the set of content streams as having distinctive content categories.
8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the at least one updated content stream comprises an updated content category.
9. A method comprising:
displaying an indication for each content stream in a set of content streams available from a media server;
detecting selection of a displayed indication of a particular content stream in the set of content streams;
identifying at least one updated content stream, available from the media server, related to content played out in response to selection of the displayed indication; and
displaying an indication of the at least one updated content stream in the displayed set of content streams.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein displaying an indication for each content stream comprises:
displaying an indication for each content stream in a set of content streams from a source of streaming media.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein displaying an indication for each content stream comprises:
displaying an exemplar associated for each content stream in the set of content streams, wherein each exemplar is a visual indication of content of a respective content stream.
12. The method of claim 9 , wherein detecting selection of a displayed indication of a particular content stream comprises:
detecting an indication of interest based on the selection of the displayed indication.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein identifying at least one updated content stream comprises:
identifying the at least one updated content stream based on the indication of interest.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein detecting selection of a displayed indication of a particular content stream comprises:
detecting selection of content to be played out at an electronic device.
15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
identifying the set of content streams as having distinctive content categories.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein the at least one updated content stream comprises an updated content category.
17. An apparatus for facilitating content selection at an electronic device, the apparatus comprising:
a display configured to display an indication of each content stream of a set of content streams available from a source of streaming media;
a monitor configured to detect selection of a displayed indication of a particular content stream in the set of content streams; and
a content stream identifier configured to identify at least one updated content stream, available from the source of streaming media, based on a reevaluation of the set of content streams;
wherein the display is further configured to display an indication of the at least one updated content stream in the displayed set of content streams.
18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the content stream identifier is further configured to reevaluate the set of content streams based on content of the particular content stream.
19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the content stream identifier is further configured to identify an updated content stream for the displayed set of content streams.
20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the display is further configured to display a maximum number of content streams.