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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2012
Applicants:

Sridhar Kunisetty, Fremont, CA (US);

Varma L. Chanderraju, San Jose, CA (US);

Vinay Kalra, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjeev K. Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bharath R. Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sridhar Kunisetty, Fremont, CA (US);

Varma L. Chanderraju, San Jose, CA (US);

Vinay Kalra, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjeev K. Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bharath R. Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2665 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25841 (2013.01); H04N 21/2665 (2013.01); H04N 21/26283 (2013.01); H04N 21/4524 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); G06F 17/30029 (2013.01); H04L 65/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods that aid users, especially users temporarily staying in locations remote from home, in finding and accessing media content. A program listing tailored for the user's current location, and showing only services actually available at that location, is created and presented to the user. In some embodiments, the user interacts with the listing to access available media content items. If the user has expressed specific location-based preferences, then those preferences can be taken into account when creating the listing. If a service subscribed to by the user is not available at this remote location, then an alternate provider will be searched for, and, if found, the user's favorite shows can be added to the created program listing.


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