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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:
Jun. 20, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2011
Applicants:

Mukesh K. Patel, Fremont, CA (US);

Jonathan A. Logan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Amir Gharaat, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Richard Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Roger Hsu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Robert Poniatowski, San Jose, CA (US);

Anthony P. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mukesh K. Patel, Fremont, CA (US);

Jonathan A. Logan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Amir Gharaat, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Richard Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Roger Hsu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Robert Poniatowski, San Jose, CA (US);

Anthony P. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

TiVo Solutions Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 19/12 (2006.01); G08C 17/02 (2006.01); G08C 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 17/02 (2013.01); G08C 17/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/30058 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G08C 2201/20 (2013.01); G08C 2201/40 (2013.01); G08C 2201/50 (2013.01); G08C 2201/92 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes responsive to receiving a command to view multimedia content, displaying the multimedia content. A selection of a privacy level for the multimedia content is received, the privacy level indicating whether information associated with a user's viewing of the multimedia content may be published. A visual indicator of the privacy level is displayed concurrently with displaying the multimedia content.


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