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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:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Rovi Guides, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Camron Shimy, Canyon Country, CA (US);

Benjamin Kim, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 21/42201 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are presented for detecting users within a range of a media device. A detection region may be defined that is within the range of the media device and smaller than the range. The detection region may be stored. It may be determined whether a user is within the detection region. The media device may be activated and settings associated with the user may be applied when a user is within the detection region. In some embodiments, settings associated with a user may be compared to provided media content when the user is within the detection region. The content may change when the settings conflict with the media content. Reminders may be provided to or directed to a plurality of users within the range of the media device.


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