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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:
Oct. 16, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2018
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Charles V. Scott, Austin, TX (US);

James Cansler, Rockwall, TX (US);

Scott White, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04N 21/47 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/47 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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