AUTHORIZED USER CUSTOMIZATION OF IPG PRESENTATION

• US 20090158351A1
• Filed: 02/18/2009
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NDS Limited (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta Incorporated (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Banker, Robert O., Rodriguez, Arturo A., Hammett, Geoffrey G., West, John Eric
• Application Number:
  US12/372,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20090158351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/58
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45457 applied to a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method for providing television functionality includes defining a time period, associating a user preference with the time period, providing a first result in accordance with the user preference if a request for television functionality is received during the defined time period, and providing a second result if the request for the television functionality is received outside the defined time period.

Claims

1. A system for implementing customized television functionality, comprising:

a memory with logic; and

a processor configured with the logic to;

receive a user'"'"'s functionality request, said functionality related to a service provided by a home communication terminal (HCT), said functionality request received during a predetermined time interval;

retrieve viewer preference information corresponding to said service and time interval from said memory; and

provide a customized television functionality based on said viewer preference information in response to said user'"'"'s functionality request.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured with the logic to provide one or more user interfaces that enable a user to define the time period, the one or more user interfaces providing selectable options corresponding to time of day, day of week, date, multiple time bases, and holidays.