Rovi Guides, Inc.

Adeia Guides Inc.

Gaurav Gandhi

Madhusudhan Srinivasan

Siddhartha Pande

Deviprasad Punja

Kuppappa Dandappa Harijan

Kuppappa Harijan

Alok Kumar

Abishek K P

Manikiruban Jaganathan

Systems and methods are disclosed for activating a personalized user profile on a device based on the detection of an outlying user input. A media guidance application detects a user input that is inconsistent with an active user profile. In response, the media guidance application identifies a candidate user that both shares a location with the device and has a user profile consistent with the user input. The media guidance application activates the user profile of the candidate user as a temporary active user profile on the device.

Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles

Systems and methods for reducing interference between content play and video recording among multiple devices located proximate to each other. Microphones of devices recording video are muted, or content play is interrupted, according to the actions of a majority of nearby devices. For example, if most devices are recording video, content play may be interrupted to prevent the video from unintentionally recording unwanted sounds from play of the content. Conversely, if most devices are not recording video, only those devices which are may have their microphones muted. Actions to reduce interference may be taken according to the current behavior of a majority of proximate devices.

Method and apparatus for reducing interference from content play in multi-device environment

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining portions of media assets for cooperative reception by multiple devices. The disclosed techniques herein include identifying cooperating devices that are able to communicate with a selected device for relaying portions of a media asset. For example, a group of people each travelling together in a vehicle may wish to view a media asset by cooperatively using their network resources of their smartphones to relay portions of the media asset for viewing. Network service data for each of the plurality of cooperating devices is then received. Based on the network service data, a determination is made for each cooperating device regarding reception of a respective portion of the media asset to each cooperating device. Instructions to receive and relay the respective portions of the media asset are transmitted to each cooperating device.

Systems and methods for determining portions of media assets for immediate retrieval by multiple devices

Systems and methods are provided for automatically performing an action based on video content. One example method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a video and determining, with a content determination engine, content of the video. An action to perform at the first computing device and/or at a second computing device is generated, based on the content of the video. If the action is to be performed at the second computing device, the action is transmitted to the second computing device. The action is performed at the respective first and/or second computing device.

Systems and methods to automatically perform actions based on media content

Embodiments of the present disclosure includes systems for and methods of managing local and remote data. A method falling within the disclosure includes: receiving, by a device, an offer via an application; storing, in an entry of a local data structure, data identifying the offer and the application via which that data was received; receiving, by the device, a search request; identifying that the search request relates to the offer; in response to identifying that the search request relates to the offer: comparing the data identifying the offer stored in the entry of the local data structure to data identifying an offer available from a source remote from the device; selecting one of the offer stored in the entry of the local data structure or the offer available from the source remote from the device based on the comparing; in response to selecting the offer stored in the entry of the local data structure, causing the application identified by the entry to generate for display the offer identified by the entry; and in response to selecting the offer available from the source remote from the device, causing a separate application to generate the offer available from the source remote from the device.

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Bengaluru, India

Gaurav Gandhi