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Patent No.:

US 9071880 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Diana Maria Cantu, Georgetown, TX (US);

Chaoxin Qiu, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/485 (2013.01); H04L 12/2818 (2013.01); H04L 2012/2849 (2013.01); H04M 11/007 (2013.01); H04N 21/6137 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided a system and an article of manufacture allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit. A system according to an example embodiment may include a set top box control processor having a common-layer application interface and a control plug-in framework. An interactive voice processor obtains voice inputs from a voice call and through the set top box control processor remotely accesses control features of a set top box. The set top box control processor performs command process management to manage set top box commands including changing channels and controlling volume. Other embodiments are disclosed.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Cantu, Diana. (2015). System and method for control of a set top box (U.S. Patent No. 9071880). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9071880

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