Parental controls for content
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11589115B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-21

    申请号:US17194126

    申请日:2021-03-05

    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a selection of a media content, applying customized parental control rules associated with a user to the media content, providing a notification to apply a parental control associated with the customized parental control rules to the media content, receiving a confirmation to apply the parental control, and controlling the media content in accordance with the parental control that is applied.

    Content processing workflow that alters objectionable content segments to enhance customer viewing experience

    公开(公告)号:US11457270B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US17325391

    申请日:2021-05-20

    Inventor: Megha Venugopal

    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining media content, providing it as input to a neural network adapted to categorize scenes according to predetermined categories, and generating metadata according to the categorization. An objectionable scene is identified based on a user preference and according to a characterization. An altered scene based on a content of the objectionable scene may be obtained responsive to the identifying of the objectionable scene. The altered scene provides a suitable scene in place of the objectional scene that preserves information of the content to obtain preserved information. Replacement of the objectionable scene with the altered scene may be facilitated to obtain adapted media content, wherein presentation of the adapted media content via equipment avoids presentation of the objectionable scene, while maintaining a continuity of the original media content via the preserved information. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    PARENTAL CONTROLS FOR CONTENT
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220286742A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-08

    申请号:US17194126

    申请日:2021-03-05

    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a selection of a media content, applying customized parental control rules associated with a user to the media content, providing a notification to apply a parental control associated with the customized parental control rules to the media content, receiving a confirmation to apply the parental control, and controlling the media content in accordance with the parental control that is applied.

    Personalized media streams
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11558670B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US17081978

    申请日:2020-10-27

    Abstract: A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.

    Method and device for re-transmission of satellite dish signals

    公开(公告)号:US11005560B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US16703605

    申请日:2019-12-04

    Inventor: Megha Venugopal

    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system at a first premises, a request from a second premises for a channel signal to be obtained from a first signal received via a satellite dish system; the request specifies one channel provided by the satellite dish system. The method also includes converting the first signal to generate a converted signal, and encrypting and modulating the converted signal to generate a second signal; the modulating is performed by a first transceiver at the first premises, and the second signal includes the requested channel signal. The method further includes transmitting the second signal to a second transceiver at the second premises; the second transceiver demodulates and decrypts the encrypted second signal to provide the requested channel signal at equipment at the second premises. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES OF IDENTIFYING AND REPLACING IRRELEVANT ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT WITH RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT IN A RECORDED MEDIA CONTENT PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20220353577A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17245009

    申请日:2021-04-30

    Inventor: Megha Venugopal

    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a selection for a media content program that is stored in a digital video recorder (DVR) database from a communication device, and detecting a first advertisement within the media content program. Embodiments include calculating time period based on a timestamp of the media content program and a current time in response to obtaining the timestamp, and determining the time period is above a threshold. Further embodiments include identifying advertisement content within the first advertisement utilizing an image recognition technique, determining the advertisement content is not relevant to the current time, and obtaining a second advertisement that is relevant to the current time. Additional embodiments can include separating the media content from the first advertisement, and providing the media content and the second advertisement to the communication device to present the media content and the second advertisement. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR ENHANCING VIEWING EXPERIENCE BASED ON MEDIA CONTENT PROCESSING AND DELIVERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220286745A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-08

    申请号:US17746253

    申请日:2022-05-17

    Inventor: Megha Venugopal

    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating metadata associated with a second portion of the first media content, and providing the first media content and the metadata to a media processor that presents the first portion of the first media content. The media processor identifies a media content type associated with the second portion of the first media content according to the metadata. Additional embodiments can include providing the second media content to the media processor. The media processor terminates presentation of the first media content prior to presentation of the second portion of the first media content and presents the second media content during a broadcast of the second portion of the first media content. Further, the media processor terminates presentation of the second media content, and presents the third portion of the first media content from the first broadcast channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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