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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. 07, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2020
Applicant:

The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Megha Venugopal, Union City, CA (US);

Steven Allstead, Jr., Long Beach, CA (US);

Cory Max Bernhardt, Lomita, CA (US);

Michael Habif, Lakewood, CA (US);

Assignee:

DIRECTV, LLC, El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4147 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining social network information associated with a first user, wherein the social network information includes information identifying a second user who is related to the first user. A determination is made that the first user had selected, during a presentation of a first media content item by a first media processing device of the first user, recording of a second media content item that had been advertised during the presentation of the first media content item. Responsive to the determining that the first user had selected the recording of the second media content item, a second media processing device of the second user is directed to record the second media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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