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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. 30, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Sankar Dhanabalan, Irving, TX (US);

Kishore Tallapaneni, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Jaykishan Tiwari, Irving, TX (US);

Anil Kumar Padi, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/32 (2008.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user device may receive information identifying one or more first audio programs available for programming content; select a first particular audio program, of the one or more first audio programs; play the first particular audio program; and receive updated information identifying one or more second audio programs available for the programming content when available audio programs change. The one or more second audio programs may be different from the one or more first audio programs. The user device may select, without user interaction, a second particular audio program, of the one or more second audio programs; and play the second particular audio program.


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