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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:

Jul. 15, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Blake Seely, San Francisco, CA (US);

Benjamin W. Keighran, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Christopher L. Oklota, San Francisco, CA (US);

Guy Piekarz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sandip M. Chokshi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of providing a notification to a client device is disclosed. The method includes, for example, obtaining data associated with the client device with respect to content provided by a plurality of content sources; creating a viewing preference profile for the client device based on the obtained data, the user preference profile indicating content preferred by the client device; detecting a triggering event concerning a digital content; and in response to the triggering event, determining whether to trigger a notification to the client device based on the viewing preference profile.


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