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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Bates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jesse F. Patterson, Pacifica, CA (US);
Mark K. Berner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Dorsey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Logan, Mountain View, CA (US);
David W. Chamberlin, Pacifica, CA (US);
Paul Stevens, Felton, CA (US);
Herbert A. Waterman, Merced, CA (US);
William L. Thomas, Evergreen, CO (US);
ROVI GUIDES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for resuming media in different modes of playback, based on attributes of a physical environment that a user has moved to. For example, a user may access a media asset (e.g., television broadcast of a baseball game) in a first environment (e.g., a living room). A media guidance application may then determine that the user has left the first environment. In response, the media guidance application may identify the user's new environment (e.g., a car) and analyze characteristics of the new environment. Based on the characteristics, the media guidance application may determine a suitable mode of playback (e.g., an audio version featuring play-by-play commentary of the baseball game on the car's radio) that the user can access from the playback position from where the user left off at the first environment.