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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2013
Applicant:

Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;

Inventor:

Alan Jay Stein, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);

Assignee:

THOMSON Licensing, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6547 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/4345 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/485 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system are performed by a processor of an audio-visual device according to instructions stored in a memory of that device that determines identity of a content medium based upon attributes associated with it and a set of user-defined settings associated with the content medium. The processor identifies a set of source-defined settings for configuring the device and selects one set of user-defined settings or the set of source-defined settings for configuring the audio-visual device. In addition, the processor determines if preexisting attributes exist that if it has to override the set of user-defined settings. It then configures one of the set of user-defined or overrides the settings. All channels from a particular network provider utilize the same set of user-defined settings, including channels that have not been visited by a user and future channels that have not yet been created.


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