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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Dish Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Inventor:
Scott Michael Parker, Aurora, CO (US);
Assignee:
DISH Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/4122 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4135 (2013.01); H04N 21/42204 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract
A commercial-free audiovisual content system allows a viewer to select two or more audiovisual sources such as television channels to view on an audiovisual display. When the system detects that a commercial is being displayed in the audiovisual content of the channel presented on the main part of the screen, the system will immediately switch to display the audiovisual content of another source that is not displaying a commercial.