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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2008
E-lee Chang, Mabelton, GA (US);
Horst Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, NJ (US);
Linda Roberts, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Darnell Clayton, Atlanta, GA (US);
Madhur Khandelwal, Atlanta, GA (US);
E-Lee Chang, Mabelton, GA (US);
Horst Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, NJ (US);
Linda Roberts, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Darnell Clayton, Atlanta, GA (US);
Madhur Khandelwal, Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system having a controller to retrieve a user profile associated with a user of the IPTV system, cause a set-top box (STB) operating in the IPTV system to present an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, receive from the STB one or more responses of the user, wherein the one or more responses are collected by the STB from a communication exchange between the avatar and the user, identify from the one or more responses a need to communicate with a content source, establish a communication session with the content source, receive from the content source an avatar profile, adapt the characteristics of the avatar to correlate at least in part to the avatar profile, and cause the STB to present the adapted avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.