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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2015
Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings, Paris, FR;
Marc Joye, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Azin Ashkan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaideep Chandrashekar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alvita Tran, Pasadena, CA (US);
Akshay Pushparaja, Mountain View, CA (US);
Swayambhoo Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shi Zhi, Urbana, IL (US);
Junyang Qian, Stanford, CA (US);
InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method () and apparatus () for inhibiting the interruption of the content being consumed by a user that is provided by an entertainment system. The method () and apparatus () of the present disclosure may detect an interruption event and determine, based on the current state of a user, whether the interruption event matches the current state of the user. If the method () and apparatus () of the present disclosure determine that the interruption event does not match the current state of the user, the method () and apparatus () of the present disclosure may inhibit the interruption of the content being consumed by the user.