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Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2024
Applicant:

Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sunil Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);

Michael Cutter, Golden, CO (US);

Ronica Jethwa, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4415 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/4415 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for controlling media-content presentation based on user presence and/or user profile. An example method includes a computing system determining a quantity of users present at a media-presentation device, the quantity being at least one. Further, the example method includes, based on the determining, the computing system using the determined quantity of users present at the media-presentation device as a basis to control what media content a media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device. For instance, based on the determined quantity of users the computing system could tailor a graphical user interface (GUI) that the media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device, such as by tailoring a set of channel options that a channel-selection GUI provides, among other possibilities.


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