Method for configuring media-playing sets
First Claim
1. A method for helping end users configure their respective media-playing sets comprising the steps of:
- (a) prompting the user to identify their respective geographical location;
(b) transmitting information specifying said location to a processing site remote from the set;
(c) identifying at said site at least one broadcast setting particularly suited for said location, and (d) adjusting the set remotely from said site so as to fully implement automatically said at least one broadcast setting.
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Abstract
An exemplary method to help end users configure their respective media playing sets includes prompting the user for their geographical location, transmitting the location to a remote processing site which identifies broadcast settings particularly suited for the location, and adjusting the set remotely from the site to fully implement automatically the settings. Another such method includes establishing a list of viewing categories, identifying preferred broadcast settings for each category, determining preferred categories for previous day/time combinations, predicting most likely to favored categories and settings, and automatically implementing such settings when the corresponding day/time combination is present. Yet another such method includes characterizing a particular program segment by at least one broadcast attribute, determining those broadcast settings most favorable for this segment based on such characterizing, and adjusting the set automatically for the user to implement these most favorable broadcast settings for the segment.
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48 Claims
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1. A method for helping end users configure their respective media-playing sets comprising the steps of:
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(a) prompting the user to identify their respective geographical location;
(b) transmitting information specifying said location to a processing site remote from the set;
(c) identifying at said site at least one broadcast setting particularly suited for said location, and (d) adjusting the set remotely from said site so as to fully implement automatically said at least one broadcast setting. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for helping end users configure their respective media-playing sets comprising the steps of:
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(a) establishing a list of viewing categories and identifying a preferred broadcast setting for each viewing category;
(b) determining preferred ones of said viewing categories for the user for previous day-of-week and time-of-day combinations and, based thereon, predicting most likely to be favored ones of said viewing categories for the user for pending day-of-week and time-of-day combinations; and
(c) based on above steps, predicting a most likely to be favored broadcast setting for the user for each of various pending day-of-week and time-of-day combinations and automatically implementing said most likely to be favored broadcast setting at said set when the corresponding day-of-week and time-of-day combination is present. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for helping end users configure their respective media-playing sets comprising the steps of:
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(a) characterizing a particular program segment by at least one broadcast attribute;
(b) determining those broadcast settings most favorable for said particular program segment based on said characterizing step; and
(c) adjusting said set automatically for said user to implement said most favorable broadcast settings for said particular program segment. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. Indexing the memory cache by assigning different identifier values to different program segments and assigning a different group of settings to each different identifier value such that there are fewer different groups of settings than there are different program segments.
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