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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:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Terry Tam, Kowloon, HK;
Jerry SO, Tseung Kwan O, HK;
Dick Wong, Kowloon, HK;
Assignee:
Rovi Guides, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/41 (2011.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1454 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/42221 (2013.01); H04N 21/64707 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wireless communications device provides users with opportunities to access interactive media guidance or other applications and to control user equipment and interactive media guidance applications. In an exemplary embodiment, if the wireless communications device goes outside of a predetermined range from the user equipment, content that was playing on user equipment may automatically be streamed to the wireless communications device.