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Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024

Filed:

May. 18, 2023
Applicant:

Dish Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventor:

Gregory Greene, Littleton, CO (US);

Assignee:

DISH Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/8113 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods control presentation of audio-only content that is broadcast to a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives media content that is currently received in a channel of a broadcasted media content stream; determines whether the currently received channel is a type of channel that provides audio/visual content or a type of channel that provides audio-only content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio/visual content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio/visual content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio-only content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio-only content, wherein the at least one audio/visual content control function is different from the at least one audio-only content control function.


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