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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Applicant:
Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Milan Indu Patel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
ROVI GUIDES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); H04N 21/41422 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described ensuring that a user will be able to consume selected media content in its entirety. In particular, a media guidance application described herein determines an amount of time () required to reach a destination () and compares this time to an amount of time required to consume media content (). If the amount of time () exceeds the amount of time () required to reach the destination, it calculates a route () for a current trip in which the length of time required to traverse a calculated route corresponds to the play length of the selected media asset.