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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 22, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Milan Indu Patel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/454 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4542 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display depictions of tournament-style competitions restricting user's access to any content that may spoil the results of the tournament. A user may request to view a display that contains a tournament and participating competitors. Requests may be received from users to view recordings of tournament competitions or a results display with the tournament bracket displayed. The media guidance application may access recorded versions of competitions from internal and external directories. Furthermore, the media guidance application may compare user viewing progress data and competitor progress data to ensure the user does not prematurely view results of any competitions of interest to the user. If the media guidance application determines a user's progress is less than the progress of the user's favorite team, visual representations of the competitions that may spoil the outcome of the user's favorite team's competition may be blacked out.


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