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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:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Scott White, Austin, TX (US);

Brett A. Anderson, San Antonio, TX (US);

James Cansler, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4782 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/42227 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 7/17354 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4782 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/485 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/6581 (2013.01); H04N 21/854 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, set top box (STB) having a controller to record one or more soft key preferences associated with a user of the STB for each of a plurality of media presentation states of a media communication system, receive a request for presentation of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with one of the media presentation states, select one or more soft keys according to the one or more soft key preferences assigned to the requested media presentation state, and present the selected one or more soft keys in the GUI. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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