Systems and Methods for Remote Control of a Television

Abstract

Systems and methods for personalized video display include providing an interface on the touch device, maintaining a layout template that includes a primary video display window and a user selectable information window, and sending the layout template to the television. The television can display the template layout and embedded content. Additionally, the touch device can detect gestures from a user and communicate instructions to the television based on the gesture input.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A mixed media viewing system, comprising
 a cloud based computing system configured to communicate with a plurality of remotely located applications executing on handheld devices;   a memory system maintaining a media viewing application configured to be executed by a processor of a wireless handheld device; and   the media viewing application operable, when executed on the wireless hand held device:
 to communicate with the cloud based computing system; 
 to present a personalized viewing window on a display of the hand held device; 
 to initiate presentation of a springing pane within the viewing window in response to a user gesture, wherein the springing pane presents textual media information, further wherein the springing pane is an HTML5 widget; 
 to present a video media within a video pane of the viewing window, wherein information representing the video media is received by the given wireless hand held device via a streaming delivery. 
   
     
     
         2 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 1 , further comprising more than one thousand instances of the media viewing application, further wherein the textual media information is selected from a group consisting of Twitter feed information, Facebook information, information about the video media, electronic mail messaging information, other messaging information, and text messaging information. 
     
     
         3 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 1 , wherein the springing pane is located to the right of the video pane. 
     
     
         4 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 1 , wherein the user gesture is a finger swipe. 
     
     
         5 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 1 , wherein the customizable viewing window is transmitted to a television for presentation on the television. 
     
     
         6 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 1 , wherein the information representing the video media is received by the wireless hand held device via a streaming delivery from a separate device connected to a local area network to which the wireless handheld device is connected. 
     
     
         7 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 6 , wherein the media viewing application is further operable, when executed on the wireless hand held device, to display guide information, to facilitate a searching of the guide information, to recognize a selection of a particular content, channel, or content source, and to
 request a different collection of information representing a different video media receivable by the given wireless hand held device via a streaming delivery from an Internet based device.   
     
     
         8 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 7 , wherein the content source is a YouTube channel 
     
     
         9 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 7 , wherein the content source is a Netflix title. 
     
     
         10 . A media system, comprising:
 a cloud based computing system configured: (1) to communicate with a plurality of remotely located applications; and (2) to maintain video guide information for the plurality of remotely located applications;   a memory system maintaining a media viewing application configured to be executed by a processor of a wireless enabled device; and   the media viewing application operable, when executed on the wireless enabled device:
 to present a viewing window on a display associated with the wireless enabled device wherein the viewing window comprises at least one video viewing pane and one messaging pane; 
 to display guide information providing at least a partial listing of available content sources, wherein the available content sources include YouTube and Netflix; 
 to facilitate a searching through the guide information; 
 to recognize a selection of a particular media content; and, 
 to request a streaming delivery of information representing the particular media content from an Internet based device. 
   
     
     
         11 . The media system of  claim 10 , wherein the messaging pane is a springing pane presented in response to a user gesture. 
     
     
         12 . The media system of  claim 10 , wherein at least a portion of the media viewing application is coded using HTML5. 
     
     
         13 . The media system of  claim 10 , wherein the media viewing application is further operable, when executed by the wireless enabled device, to send a collection of information to a television that is connected to a local area network to which the given wireless enabled device is connected to allow the television to present a representation of the viewing window on the television. 
     
     
         14 . The media system of  claim 13 , wherein the media viewing application is further operable to present video received from a first video source in the video viewing pane, and to present video received from a second video source in a second video viewing pane. 
     
     
         15 . The media system of  claim 14 , wherein the first source is a Internet based component and the second source is a component within the local area network to which the given wireless enabled device is connected. 
     
     
         16 . The media system of  claim 13 , wherein the media viewing application is further operable to allow the given wireless enabled device to act as a wireless trackpad user interface for the television. 
     
     
         17 . A mixed media viewing system, comprising:
 a network based computing system configured to communicate with a plurality of remotely located applications executing on handheld devices;   a memory system maintaining a video viewing application configured to be executed by a processor of a handheld device; and   the video viewing application operable, when executed on the handheld device:
 to communicate with the network based computing system; 
 to present a multi-pane viewing window on a display of the given handheld device; 
 to allow a user to customize the viewing window; 
 to send a collection of information to a television that is connected to a local area network to which the given wireless enabled device is connected to allow the television to present a representation of the viewing window on the television; 
 to allow the given wireless enabled device to act as a wireless trackpad user interface for the television. 
   
     
     
         18 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 17 , wherein the multi-pane viewing window comprises a video viewing pane and a springing social media viewing pane. 
     
     
         19 . The mixed media viewing system of  claim 18 , wherein the video viewing application comprises at least one HTML5 widget. 
     
     
         20 . The video viewing system of  claim 19 , wherein the video viewing application is further operable to simultaneously and continuously present multiple panes within the multi-pane viewing window.