APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER CUSTOMIZED AND/OR PERSONAL TELEVISION AND/OR ENTERTAINMENT ACCOUNT

• US 20170026683A1
• Filed: 10/06/2016
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raymond Anthony Joao
• Original Assignee: Raymond Anthony Joao
• Inventors: JOAO, RAYMOND ANTHONY
• Application Number:
  US15/287,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20170026683A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• 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 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82

Abstract

An apparatus, including a communication device of a user which receives entertainment content provided pursuant to the user'"'"'s personal entertainment account which is administered by a central processing computer and includes information regarding user pre-selected entertainment content, which communication device transmits a request to receive entertainment content from among user pre-selected content and roaming entertainment content identified by the central processing computer based upon location or position of the communication device or based on a time zone within which the communication device is located, and an entertainment device or a television. The communication device is connected to or linked with the entertainment device or television and transmits the entertainment content requested to the entertainment device or television. Information regarding use of the personal entertainment account or the use of the roaming entertainment content is stored in the central processing computer.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing entertainment content, comprising:

a personal communication device, wherein the personal communication device is associated with a user, and further wherein the personal communication device is a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, a wireless telephone, or a smart phone, and further wherein the personal communication device receives entertainment content provided pursuant to a personal entertainment account of the user, wherein the personal entertainment account is administered by a central processing computer and includes information regarding entertainment content provided by a plurality of content providers, and further wherein the personal entertainment account includes information regarding user pre-selected entertainment content, wherein the personal communication device transmits a request to receive entertainment content from among the user pre-selected entertainment content and roaming entertainment content which is automatically identified by the central processing computer based upon a location or position of the personal communication device or based upon a time zone within which the personal communication device is located, wherein the entertainment content requested is transmitted to the personal communication device via, on, or over, the Internet or the World Wide Web; and

an entertainment device or a television, wherein the personal communication device is connected to or linked with the entertainment device or the television via a Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via a Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via a wired connection, and further wherein the personal communication device transmits the entertainment content requested to the entertainment device or to the television via the Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via the Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via the wired connection, and further wherein the entertainment device or the television provides, plays, or displays, the entertainment content requested,

wherein the personal communication device or the apparatus is specially programmed to receive and provide to the entertainment device or to the television the entertainment content requested, and further wherein information regarding the use of the personal entertainment account or the use of the roaming entertainment content is stored in the central processing computer.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information regarding a restriction or a limitation on the use of the personal entertainment account is transmitted from the personal communication device to the central processing computer and stored in the central processing computer.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein information regarding a request to receive a notification message or an alert message is transmitted from the personal communication device to the central processing computer and stored in the central processing computer.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the entertainment content requested is a television program.

5. An apparatus for providing entertainment content, comprising:

a central processing computer, wherein the central processing computer is specially configured to distribute entertainment content which is provided by a plurality of content providers, and further wherein the central processing computer is specially configured to store information regarding a personal entertainment account for each of a plurality of users;

a personal communication device, wherein the personal communication device is associated with a user of the plurality of users, and further wherein the personal communication device is a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, a wireless telephone, or a smart phone, and further wherein the personal communication device receives entertainment content provided pursuant to a personal entertainment account of the user, wherein the personal entertainment account includes information regarding entertainment content provided by a plurality of content providers, and further wherein the personal entertainment account includes information regarding user pre-selected entertainment content, wherein the personal communication device transmits a request to receive entertainment content from among the user pre-selected entertainment content and roaming entertainment content which is automatically identified by the central processing computer based upon a location or position of the personal communication device or based upon a time zone within which the personal communication device is located, wherein the entertainment content requested is transmitted to the personal communication device via, on, or over, the Internet or the World Wide Web; and

an entertainment device or a television, wherein the personal communication device is connected to or linked with the entertainment device or the television via a Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via a Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via a wired connection, and further wherein the personal communication device transmits the entertainment content requested to the entertainment device or to the television via the Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via the Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via the wired connection, and further wherein the entertainment device or the television provides, plays, or displays, the entertainment content requested,

wherein the personal communication device is specially programmed to receive and provide to the entertainment device or to the television the entertainment content requested, and further wherein information regarding the use of the personal entertainment account or the use of the roaming entertainment content is stored by the central processing computer.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the information regarding a restriction or a limitation on the use of the personal entertainment account is transmitted from the personal communication device to the central processing computer and stored in the central processing computer.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein information regarding a request to receive a notification message or an alert message is transmitted from the personal communication device to the central processing computer and stored in the central processing computer.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the entertainment content requested is a television program.

9. An apparatus for providing entertainment content, comprising:

a personal communication device, wherein the personal communication device is associated with a user, and further wherein the personal communication device is a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, a wireless telephone, or a smart phone, and further wherein the personal communication device receives entertainment content provided pursuant to a personal entertainment account of the user, wherein the personal entertainment account is administered by a central processing computer and includes information regarding entertainment content provided by a plurality of content providers, and further wherein the personal entertainment account includes information regarding user pre-selected entertainment content, wherein the personal communication device transmits a request to receive entertainment content from among the user pre-selected entertainment content and roaming entertainment content which is automatically identified by the central processing computer based upon a location or position of the personal communication device or based upon a time zone within which the personal communication device is located, wherein the entertainment content requested is transmitted to the personal communication device via, on, or over, the Internet or the World Wide Web; and

an entertainment device or a television, wherein the personal communication device is connected to or linked with the entertainment device or the television via a Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via a Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via a wired connection, and further wherein the personal communication device transmits the entertainment content requested to the entertainment device or to the television via the Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipment, via the Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth equipment, or via the wired connection, and further wherein the entertainment device or the television provides, plays, or displays, the entertainment content requested,

wherein the personal communication device or the apparatus is specially programmed to receive and provide to the entertainment device or to the television the entertainment content requested from among the content accessible via the personal entertainment account or from among the roaming entertainment content, and further wherein information regarding the use of the personal entertainment account or the use of the roaming entertainment content is stored in the central processing computer,

and further wherein the personal communication device receives a notification message or an alert message transmitted from the central processing computer, wherein the notification message or the alert message contains information regarding a use of, or an accessing of, or a change made to, the personal entertainment account.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the information regarding a restriction or a limitation on the use of the personal entertainment account is stored by the central processing computer.