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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. 03, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Ashleigh A. Miller, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/454 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/454 (2013.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/475 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for preventing spoilers from being presented to a user based on user activity are described herein. In some embodiments, the media guidance application may predict events that a user may not wish to be spoiled based on user activity, and prevent spoilers for the predicted events from being presented. For example, by using received data identifying purchase activities associated with the user, a media guidance application may identify events associated with the purchase activity. The media guidance application may identify content associated with these events, and prevent the identified content from being presented to the user in response to determining that the identified content includes spoilers for the events.


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