Rovi Guides, Inc.

Adeia Guides Inc.

Rovl Guides, Inc.

Nevakar Inc.

Nevakar Injectables Inc.

Apple Inc.

Rovi Guldes, Inc.

Ravi Guides, Inc.

Milan Indu Patel

Rowena Young

Charles Dawes

Kumaresh Soppimath

Olivier Chalouhi

Iouri V Ilitchev

John Blake

Ofer Vaisler

Aaron Peter Blohowiak

Ryan Werth

Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon

Paul Maltar

Yong Gong

Sashikumar Venkataraman

Ajay Kumar Gupta

Abubakkar Siddiq

Prem Sagar Akasapu

Sai Rahul Reddy Pulikunta

Reema Ajitkumar Puri

Pooja H Tendulkar

Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah

Glen E Roe

Michael K McCarty

Nimit Dineshbhai Kalaria

Young-Hwan Kim

Stephanie Schaeffer

Hyok Cho

John Patterson

Jerry Vennerholm

Andrew Hunter

Vincent Lefevre

Gavin Clarke

Pushpita Bhattacharjee

Imran Khaliq

Gorm Ward Nielsen

Edison Lin

Claire Marie Wallters

Barbara F Skliba

Smitha Mave

George John Oehling

Emily Weigand

Nancy Huynh

Sang Mo Kim

Kevin Scott Bright

Sandip Shah

Lopamudra Sengupta

Devrim Varoglu

Gencer Cili

Tushar Hingorani

Navneet Puri

Suresh Nagaraj

Jack Martin Lipman

Varun Khurana

Jean Michel Bourdon

Kevin S Bright

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing content related to a user-selected media asset featuring a person unrelated to that media asset, but that was involved in another media asset together with a person that was involved with the user-selected media. Specifically, a user-selection of a media asset is received and a first person involved in the media asset is identified. A second person that is associated with the first person and is not involved in the user-selected media asset is identified and content featuring the second person and related to the user-selected media asset is presented to a user.

System and method for locating content related to a media asset

Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that can cause a specific portion of a media asset to be stored based on a user command. For example, if the user requests the closing scene from a given movie, the media guidance application may detect the command, determine that it comprises an instruction to store a portion of a media asset, identify a source of the portion of the media asset, and cause the portion of the media asset to be stored. The media guidance application may also cause the entirety of the media asset to be stored and initiate playback at the start of the requested portion. This may allow users to store and watch portions of particular interest without requiring that the users seek through the entire media asset on their own.

Systems and methods for identifying and storing a portion of a media asset

Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that aggregates related media content, associated with media content selected by a user, by comparing keywords.

Systems and methods for aggregating related media content based on tagged content

Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in the conventional network storage systems via novel techniques to store offsets of a recorded program in a network digital video recorder (DVR). Storing offsets of a recorded program may be beneficial to users that would like to record media content that is broadcast either prior to a start time of a program, or media content that is broadcast after an end time of a program. This feature may be useful when start times and end times of a program are variable (e.g., in the case of sporting events, or other real-time events). This feature may also be useful for recording content of interest that is scheduled for broadcast prior to a start time of or after an end time of the program.

Systems and methods for storing offsets of a recorded program in a network DVR

Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently 'catching-up' a user that is interested in a media asset when that user has missed a portion of the media asset while consuming the media asset together with other people. The system may detect that multiple people are consuming a media asset and may determine, based on a respective profile of each person, whether that person is interested in the media asset. When the system detects that the user is disregarding the media asset, the missed portion of the media asset is stored if the user is interested in the media asset, and is not stored if the user is not interested in the media asset.

System and method for delivering missed portions of media assets to interested viewers

Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that intuitively and efficiently allows a user to navigate a large amount of media content on a variety of user devices. Specifically, the media guidance application may provide a user with cluster-based search results. The media guidance application may intelligently select the clusters presented to a user, and attributes of those clusters, in order to assist the user in navigating the available content.

Methods and systems for generating cluster-based search results

Methods and systems are presented for transferring an interactive feature from a first device to a second device. Two users may be consuming a media asset. Upon receipt of a command to active an interactive feature, a determination is made whether a user who did not activate the interactive feature is interested in the media asset. Upon that determination, a timer is activated that tracks an amount of time for which the interactive feature is active and a determination is made whether a threshold time period has been met. Once the threshold time period is met, a device associated with the user that activated the interactive feature is identified and the users are prompted to transfer the interactive feature to the device.

Method and system for transferring an interactive feature to another device

Systems and methods are provided herein for providing a storyline based media content. At least two storylines may be identified, each storyline specifying an order of providing a plurality of episodes from a plurality of interrelated series. Identifiers of the plurality of episodes are displayed. Then identifiers of a first set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the first storyline are graphically modified to indicate relevance to the first storyline. Identifiers of a second set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the second storyline are also graphically modified to indicate relevance to the second storyline. A first and second storyline identifier are generating for display to enable storyline selection. The interrelated series are then provided to a user device in the order specified by the selected storyline.

Systems and methods for providing a storyline selection interface

Systems and methods are described herein for detecting information that indicates that a user will be traveling from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, and responsively accessing a playlist indicated by a profile of the user that indicates a plurality of streaming media that the user intends to consume. Control circuitry may then compare data corresponding to each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media to a database to determine whether each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media is accessible to the user at the second geographic location, and may determine that a subset of the plurality of media is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location. In response to determining that the subset is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location, the control circuitry may download each media of the subset.

Systems and methods for ensuring continued access to media of a playlist despite geographic content restrictions

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display depictions of tournament-style competitions restricting user's access to any content that may spoil the results of the tournament. A user may request to view a display that contains a tournament and participating competitors. Requests may be received from users to view recordings of tournament competitions or a results display with the tournament bracket displayed. The media guidance application may access recorded versions of competitions from internal and external directories. Furthermore, the media guidance application may compare user viewing progress data and competitor progress data to ensure the user does not prematurely view results of any competitions of interest to the user. If the media guidance application determines a user's progress is less than the progress of the user's favorite team, visual representations of the competitions that may spoil the outcome of the user's favorite team's competition may be blacked out.

Systems and methods for preventing spoilers in a results display for a tournament-style competition by selectively blacking out competitor results

The inventive subject matter provides ready-to-administer, preferably anti-oxidant free, epinephrine compositions with improved stability, and methods for preparing the same. Contemplated compositions can be packaged using blow-fill-seal technology or packaged into flexible IV bags and maintain degradation of the epinephrine at a level of less than 5 wt % when stored over at least one months at between 2-40° C.

Epinephrine compositions and containers

Systems and methods for updating advertisements embedded in a media asset scheduled for download at a future time. The media guidance application may receive a request from a user to download a media asset at a future time, where the media asset includes a plurality of embedded advertisements. The media guidance application may determine whether to update an embedded advertisement in the plurality of embedded advertisements. After determining to update the embedded advertisement, the media guidance application may replace the embedded advertisement with an updated advertisement in the media asset.

Systems and methods for determining whether to update embedded advertisements in downloaded content using advertisement update criteria

Methods and systems are described for downloading media assets efficiently and quickly before loss of network connectivity. The method may allow a user to download portions of a media asset in different versions to download a maximum portion of the media asset before loss of network connectivity. Certain versions of media assets may be downloaded more quickly than other versions of media assets. The method may also allow a user to view partially downloaded media assets without network connectivity. The method may also replace portions of media assets downloaded in a first version with portions of the media assets in a second version once network connectivity is restored.

Methods and systems for efficiently downloading media assets

Systems and methods are described ensuring that a user will be able to consume selected media content in its entirety. In particular, a media guidance application described herein determines an amount of time () required to reach a destination () and compares this time to an amount of time required to consume media content (). If the amount of time () exceeds the amount of time () required to reach the destination, it calculates a route () for a current trip in which the length of time required to traverse a calculated route corresponds to the play length of the selected media asset.

Systems and methods for altering navigation instructions based on the consumption time of media content

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Milan Indu Patel