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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:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2021
Applicant:

Home Box Office, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jason S. Ferrara, Lincoln Park, NJ (US);

Brandon C. Furtwangler, Issaquah, WA (US);

Cathrynn E. Toshach, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/6405 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/8549 (2013.01); H04N 21/433 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/472 (2013.01); H04N 21/6405 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01);
Abstract

The described technology is generally directed towards a surf mode of operation for streaming content such as video content, in which different content is arranged as different channels though which a user can surf by changing the streaming channels. The starting times of the different content can be staggered. Aspects comprise streaming first content corresponding to a first interactively selectable streaming channel to an output device, receiving a change request to change to a second interactively selectable streaming channel, and in response to the receiving the change request, streaming second content corresponding to the second interactively selectable streaming channel to the output device.


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