System and method for presenting program guide information in an electronic portable device
A controlling device is provided with the ability to present personalized program guide information by using personal preferences provided to a home computing device. The personal preferences are used to filter program guide data received at the home computing device whereby the program guide data will include only programming information for user-specified sources of programming for each of plural, different user-specified periods of time. The filtered program guide data is then downloaded to the controlling device from the home computing device for use in connection with an application of the controlling device that functions to display program guide information within a display of the controlling device.
1. A non-transitory, computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processing device of a controlling device, function to display in a display that is an integral component of the controlling device a favorites page having a plurality of activable icons each of which is associated with at least one command transmittable by the controlling device to cause an appliance to access a media that is provided by a one of the plurality of media sources, the instructions performing steps comprising:
receiving a request to display the favorites page in the display of the controlling device;
subsequent to receiving the request to display the favorites page in the display of the controlling device, accessing an external source of media information to retrieve supplemental media data that is associated with the media that is provided by each of the plurality of media sources;
subsequent to accessing the external source of media information, using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine an appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page; and
subsequent to using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine the appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page, causing the favorites page to be displayed in the display of the controlling device with the determined appearance.
2. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the step of accessing the external source of media information is performed in response to the request to display the favorites page in the display of the controlling device being received.
3. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the step of accessing the external source of media information comprises accessing one or more websites that have been associated with the favorites page.
4. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 3 , wherein user input is provided to the controlling device to associate the one or more websites to be accessed with the favorites page.
5. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a time remaining in the sporting event.
6. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a score in the sporting event.
7. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the step of using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine an appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page when the favorites page is caused to be displayed in the display of the controlling device in response to the received request comprises using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine a positional layout for the plurality of icons within the favorites page to be displayed.
8. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the step of using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine an appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page when the favorites page is caused to be displayed in the display of the controlling device in response to the received request comprises using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine if one or more of the plurality of icons is to be highlighted within the favorites page to be displayed.
9. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the supplemental media data comprises user rating data for the media that is provided by each of the plurality of media sources.
10. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the supplemental media data to be periodically updated while the favorites page is being displayed within the display of the controlling device and wherein the updated supplemental media data is used to periodically alter the appearance that is provided to the favorites page as the favorites page is being displayed in the display of the controlling device.
11. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 10 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a time remaining in the sporting event.
12. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 10 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a score in the sporting event.
13. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 10 , wherein the step of using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine an appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page when the favorites page is caused to be displayed in the display of the controlling device in response to the received request comprises using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine a positional layout for the plurality of icons within the favorites page to be displayed.
14. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 10 , wherein the step of using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine an appearance that is to be provided to the favorites page when the favorites page is caused to be displayed in the display of the controlling device in response to the received request comprises using the retrieved supplemental media data to determine if one or more of the plurality of icons is to be highlighted within the favorites page to be displayed.
15. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 10 , wherein the retrieved supplemental media data is caused to be displayed with a corresponding one of the plurality of activable icons within the favorites page.
16. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 15 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a time remaining in the sporting event.
17. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 15 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a sporting event and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a score in the sporting event.
18. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the media provided by one or more of the plurality of media sources comprises a broadcast program and wherein the supplemental media data comprises a time remaining in the broadcast program.
19. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 18 , wherein the retrieved supplemental media data is caused to be displayed with a corresponding one of the plurality of activable icons within the favorites page.
20. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the retrieved supplemental media data is caused to be displayed with a corresponding one of the plurality of activable icons within the favorites page.