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US 8736764
Method, navigation and display system for widgets on internet-enabled devices
Current assignee: Individual
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview: US8736764B2
Title: Method, navigation and display system for widgets on internet-enabled devices
Patent number: US8736764B2 | Application: US13/504,193 | Publication: US20120257110A1
Inventor: Harald Amundsen. The source lists "Individual" as current and original assignee, with later reassignment entries naming VIRTUAL TOOLBOX, LLC (2019) and AMUNDSEN, HARALD (2020). Legal status is listed as Active, with anticipated expiration 2030-09-15, but the source states this is an assumption and not a legal conclusion.
Key dates: Priority date 2009-11-11; filing date 2010-09-15; granted/publication date 2014-05-27.
Purpose: The invention "relates to a navigation and display system that enables TV viewers to mix-in widgets on a main TV-picture." It also concerns "a method for providing sticky widgets to a main TV-picture." The main object is to let a TV viewer navigate widget profiles and the widgets within them, select widgets from different profiles, and make them "sticky and/or 'sticky on change'."
Plain-language scope (per the excerpt): A system includes a TV unit (11) with an internal or external internet-enabled device (12) — e.g., Blu-Ray players, set-top boxes, video game consoles — controllable by a control device (13) such as a remote or smart device. Widget profiles are collections of widgets, either personal or categorical, settable up to the TV viewer, password-protectable (e.g., 4-digit PIN), and creatable via a web portal with drag-to-place positioning. Widgets may appear as icons/names until "launched," may support themes, and may appear only briefly as alerts/notifications on update. Digital Signage uses are mentioned, supporting automatic profile switching based on date, time-of-day, or weather.
The excerpt references publications EP 2069900, WO 2008131417, and CA 2622900 as known art, and lists classification H04N21/00 (selective content distribution).
Not established by this excerpt: Full claim language and claim count; specification details beyond the passages shown; the citations' content; and the accuracy of assignee or legal-status listings, which the source itself flags as assumptions.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US8736764](/patent/US8736764)/en
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