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Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2022
Applicant:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Corey Tulis, Portland, OR (US);

David Wittke, Simi Valley, CA (US);

Mikhail Aksenfeld, Castaic, CA (US);

Michael McCarty, Agoura Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/278 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4332 (2013.01); H04N 21/278 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are presented for reducing network traffic when retrieving media guidance data. For example, a media guidance application receives a first user selection to display a group of media asset identifiers (e.g., video-on-demand listings) and retrieves detailed information from a remote server relating to the media asset identifiers to display to a user. The media guidance application then may receive a user selection to display a second group of media asset identifiers (e.g., purchased media assets). If any of the media asset identifiers are common to both groups, then the media guidance application already obtained the detailed information and the detailed information does not need to be retransmitted in order to be displayed. Thus, the media guidance application only retrieves detailed information for media asset identifiers unique to the second group of media asset identifiers (e.g., they are only on the purchased media asset list).


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