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Display inserts, overlays, and graphical user interfaces for multimedia systems

  • US 10,166,572 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2017
  • Issued: 01/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A gateway device for operation at a user premises to provide and manage services for one or more endpoint devices associated with the gateway device, the gateway device comprising:

  • a first interface for enabling bi-directional communications within the premises, with one or more of the endpoint devices including at least one television;

    a second interface for enabling bi-directional communications, via a wide area network, between the one or more endpoint devices and a remotely located application service management center external to the premises;

    a processor coupled to the first and second interfaces; and

    storage, coupled to the processor and logically positioned at the user premises, storing programming related to a plurality of application services, wherein, for at least one application service, execution of the programming by the processor causes the gateway device to provide functions in relation to a respective service for the one or more endpoint devices, said functions including;

    (1) communication, via the second interface, providing client functionality, between the one or more endpoint devices and an application server, for the respective service;

    (2) one or more of;

    authorization, authentication, configuration, use of the respective service, or any combination thereof, in relation to the one or more endpoint devices;

    (3) management of the application service based upon the communications with the remotely located application service management center via the wide area network; and

    (4) management of resources for an application to implement a request such that consistent performance is provided by gateway services accessed by the one or more endpoint devices via a local area network;

    wherein a media service of the plurality of application services;

    is managed by the remotely location application service management center;

    provides a first display on the television including media streamed from a remote media provider separate from the application service management center via the second interface;

    provides a second display on the television including media accessed, via the first interface, from a first of the endpoint devices at the premises other than the television;

    provides a third display on the television including a composite of content provided by the remote media provider integrated with content locally available at the premises; and

    provides a fourth display on the television including options for configuring home automation settings for at least two of the one or more of the endpoint devices;

    wherein both selection between the first, second, third, and fourth displays and interactions within each of the first, second, third, and fourth displays are implemented through interaction with a second of the endpoint devices at the premises other than the television and first of the endpoint devices.

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