Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120185902 | Programmable, Interactive Content Viewing on a Mobile Video Application - Promotional content provided by content providers is distributed to mobile devices to be displayed with designated videos on mobile devices. The promotional content is received from a content provider, e.g., via an API and associated with a video, group of videos or channel available from a video hosting server. The promotional content meets certain specifications set by the video hosting server. A mobile device requests promotional content for a selected video and the video hosting server provides any available promotional content to the mobile device. The promotional content is displayed with the selected video as designated by the content provider. Activation of the promotional content in some embodiments results in an action being invoked on the mobile device, such as loading of a uniform resource identifier. In some cases, the promotional content is cached by the mobile device for later use. | 07-19-2012 |
20130263001 | RESTRICTING OPERATION OF A CLIENT DEVICE TO PARENT APPROVED CONTENT - This disclosure relates to systems and methods that facilitate restricting operation of a client device to parent approved content. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265235 | FLOATING NAVIGATIONAL CONTROLS IN A TABLET COMPUTER - Aspects relate to placement of navigational controls on the left bottom position, the right bottom position, or both the left bottom and right bottom position on a tablet computer display. The placement selection of the navigational controls can be a function of orientation of a user's thumb(s). A navigational area can be defined with respect to a range of movement of the user's thumb(s) and/or size of the user's thumb(s). Further, the navigational controls can be switched between left-hand control and right-hand control as a function of a user preference. When the display is switched between portrait and landscape mode, the navigational controls can be automatically adjusted as a function of the navigational area and the display mode. | 10-10-2013 |