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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:
Jun. 24, 2025

Filed:

May. 03, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Chaitanya Korupolu, Visakhapatnam, IN;

Girish Padmanabhan, Pune, IN;

Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing online media content. Online audiovisual media to be displayed to a user is provided to a client device. In response to detecting that the user is inattentive relative to the displayed audiovisual media, the provisioning of the audiovisual media and/or the display of the audiovisual media on the client device are automatically paused. In response to detecting that the user's attention has returned to the audiovisual media, a modified version of the audiovisual media is provided to the client device, to be displayed to the user.


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