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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2003
Mark Joseph Hamzy, Round Rock, TX (US);
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
Peter A. Zannucci, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark Joseph Hamzy, Round Rock, TX (US);
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
Peter A. Zannucci, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A user enters control settings into a content receiver whereby the control settings correspond to a particular viewer or a particular time-of-day. The content receiver receives a media signal and metadata that includes censorship level information. The content receiver uses the control settings to identify an applicable censorship level and uses the metadata to de-scramble the media signal to a censorship level corresponding to the identified applicable censorship level. The content receiver provides the de-scrambled media signal to a viewer's display.