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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:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Troy C. Meuninck, Newnan, GA (US);

William A. Brown, Canton, GA (US);

Nadia Morris, Pacifica, CA (US);

Virginia Ng, Lawrenceville, GA (US);

James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr., Gainesville, GA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 13/0059 (2013.01); H04N 13/0434 (2013.01); H04N 13/0438 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/8153 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium having computer instructions to present a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, and cause the single presentation device to present a user interface for one of the plurality of unassociated media programs responsive to detecting a request for the user interface. Each of the plurality of unassociated media programs can be viewable only with a viewing apparatus. The viewing apparatus can be configured for viewing one of the unassociated media programs at a time. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.


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