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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:
Jan. 17, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Megha Venugopal, Union City, CA (US);

Binny Asarikuniyil, Cerritos, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4583 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.


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