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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:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Scott White, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/478 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/6405 (2011.01); H04N 21/6408 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/8545 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/47815 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04L 65/1059 (2013.01); H04N 21/42208 (2013.01); H04N 21/42209 (2013.01); H04N 21/443 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/6405 (2013.01); H04N 21/6408 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/8166 (2013.01); H04N 21/858 (2013.01); H04N 21/8545 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to receive from a media communication system metadata describing one or more marketable items depicted in a media program supplied by the media communication system, present images of the media program at a media presentation device without highlighting the one or more marketable items, present an icon at least at one of a remote controller managing operations of the media processor or the media presentation device to indicate a presence of the one or more marketable items in one or more of the images presented at the media presentation device, detect a selection of the icon, and highlight the one or more marketable items. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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