At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

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At&t IP I, LP

Charles V Scott

Scott A White

James Leonard Cansler

Ankur Mukerji

Marc Andrew Sullivan

Adam Klein

Wesley McAfee

Paul R Hancock

Stuart Steele

Donn E Willburn, Jr

Donn Wilbum, Jr

Donn E Wilburn, Jr

James I Cansler

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an authentication server, first credentials from a mobile application installed on a device. The first credentials include information associated with the device and information associated with a user of the device. The method also includes automatically receiving, by the authentication server and from the device, a request to connect the device to a network of a third party. The request is automatically generated by the device without interaction from the user of the device and the request comprises second credentials. The method further includes determining, by the authentication server, whether to authenticate the device using the first credentials and the second credentials and communicating, by the authentication server, a packet to the device that allows the device to connect to the network of the third party if the authentication server determines to authenticate the device.

Systems and methods for initiating network access according to automatic authentication utilizing a mobile device

A method includes selecting, at a content management computer, a particular content source of a plurality of content sources for media content associated with a media content item requested by a first media device. The particular content source is selected based on a network topology of an access network. The method includes sending a first instruction to the particular content source from the content management computer. The first instruction causes the particular content source to send the media content to the first media device. The method includes, after sending the first instruction, receiving, at the content management computer, a request for the media content item from a second media device. The method also includes sending a second instruction from the content management computer to the first media device. The second instruction causes the first media device to send the media content to the second media device.

System and method of providing media content

An illuminated vehicle distress sign is disclosed herein. The illuminated vehicle distress sign includes an emergency signal device comprising a vehicle window attachment. The vehicle window attachment has a first shaft hingedly attached thereto and a second shaft hingedly attached to the first shaft which supports a rigid signaling placard at the distal end thereof. Additionally, the signaling placard includes a plurality of battery powered and multi-colored LED's disposed on the peripheral edges of the front and back faces thereof. Furthermore, the signaling placard may be provided in the form of a square or in the shape of a hand. Additionally, the LEDs disposed on the placard may be mounted in a configuration to form the word 'HELP'. Other configurations and other sizes may be used.

Illuminated vehicle distress sign

A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving a selection from a media device corresponding to a first media content, generating a play list at a server where the play list includes second media content that is associated with the first media content by at least one of genre, artist and being published in temporal proximity, and providing play list content comprising at least a portion of the first and second media content to the media device, where at least one of the generation of the play list and the providing of the play list content is based on metadata pointers associated with the first and second media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for presenting media content

A method includes receiving, from a set-top box device, data that indicates selected media content from a list of available media content. The method includes locating one or more content sources for the selected media content. The method includes selecting a particular content source from the one or more content sources. The method includes locating an access rules source for the selected media content. The method includes instructing the particular content source to send the selected media content to the set-top box device. The method also includes instructing the access rules source to send an access rule associated with the selected media content to the set-top box device.

Systems provide shared multimedia content to a plurality of members of a collaboration group, request input related to the multimedia content from a portion of the plurality of members, modify the shared multimedia content to include an indication of a portion of the input, and provide the modified shared multimedia content to the plurality of members. The shared multimedia content may include a television program, a movie, or a real-time event. The requested input may include a prediction or a trivia answer related to the shared multimedia content.

Shared multimedia experience including user input

An administrator controls viewer access to restricted multimedia programs using electronic permission slips. In response to a viewer's request to view a restricted multimedia program, the viewer may initiate the generation of an electronic permission slip that is sent to an electronic device associated with the administrator. The electronic permission slip may include text-based information, graphical information, audio information, and the like. The electronic permission slip may enable input of permission data regarding whether the viewer is allowed to receive the blocked program. In response to the administrator granting permission, a service provider network allows the viewer to access the restricted multimedia program.

Electronic permission slips for controlling access to multimedia content

A method and a system for providing remote set-top box access functions in an Internet browser extension based on advertisement metadata is disclosed. A meta-data tag associated with an advertisement embedded on a currently viewed web page is scanned. It is determined that the meta-data tag is related to entertainment content. A media manipulation action for the entertainment content is determined. A notification that the media manipulation action is available for the entertainment content is displayed. Controls to store the media manipulation action on a user account are provided, and the manipulation action is stored to the user account.

Method and system for providing set-top box remote access functions in a browser extension based on advertising metadata

A method is disclosed including but not limited to monitoring penetration data on an advertising server processor wherein the penetration data indicates frequency, quantity, duration and data volume of data correlated with advertising data that has been sent from a first end user device to a second end user device. A computer program and a system are disclose for monitoring penetration data on an advertising server processor wherein the penetration data indicates frequency, quantity, duration and data volume of data correlated with advertising data that has been sent from a first end user device to a second end user device.

System and method for sending advertising data based on data associated with video data

A computer readable medium is disclosed containing instructions that when executed by a computer perform a method for presenting advertising data, the method including but not limited to placing scene start marker data in video data stream at a scene start data; receiving end user trick play command data during presentation of the video data stream at the end user device; and moving to the scene start marker data in the video data in response to the end user trick play command data. A system is disclosed for executing the method. A data structure is disclosed for containing data used by the system and method.

System and method for presenting advertising data during trick play command execution

A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System for managing media content for a personal television channel

A computer readable medium is disclosed containing a computer program including but not limited to computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer present advertising data, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to display advertising data on an end user device for a duration longer than a duration of normal playback of advertising data at normal speed that is being skipped during the current trick play command; and instructions to continue the display of the advertising data until after the duration of normal playback when trick play trend data indicates that an end user at the end user device has skipped advertising data during the last two consecutive trick play commands including the current trick play command and during a most recent trick play command in the trick play command history.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Charles V Scott