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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2011
Applicants:
Haifeng BI, San Antontio, TX (US);
Xiaolian BI, San Antontio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Haifeng Bi, San Antontio, TX (US);
Xiaolian Bi, San Antontio, TX (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4432 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first user initiating control of a media processor device, determining a startup media program according to one or more startup media preferences associated with the identified first user and one or more characteristics corresponding to the first user initiating control, and transmitting to a display device the startup media program derived from a media stream. Other embodiments are disclosed.