Multimedia mobile personalization system

• US 9,282,273 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2009
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TiVo Inc. (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Lockett, David, Feder, Adam, Barton, James M., Klar, Michael F., Goodman, Andrew M., Platt, David C., Beach, Brian, Brown, David Avraham
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, CAI Y
• Application Number:
  US12/464,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259939A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,492 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• 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 21/441 Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/7605 on discs or drums H04N5/781, H04N5/805, H04N5/83, H04N5/85 take precedence

Abstract

A multimedia mobile personalization system provides a remote control that detects a user'"'"'s electronic tag, e.g. an RFID tag. The remote control notifies a multimedia device of the user'"'"'s identity. The multimedia devices tailors it operations to the user'"'"'s preferences stored locally. Multimedia content such as broadcast or recorded television programs, music play lists, and the like could be sorted, displayed, or restricted, depending on the user identifier.

Claims

1. A method for a multimedia mobile personalization system, comprising:

receiving from a remote control, by a multimedia device, a plurality of signals from a plurality of user identification tags, the remote control simultaneously detecting the plurality of signals from the plurality of user identification tags, a signal contains an identifier for a user;

retrieving, by the multimedia device, user preferences associated with the received plurality of signals;

in response to retrieving the user preferences;

determining common interests between the retrieved user preferences, the multimedia device customizes its operations based on the determined common interests between the retrieved user preferences; and

in response to a user command, the multimedia device displaying a listing of recorded multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia device customizes its display of the displayed listing of recorded multimedia content by not displaying recorded multimedia content in the listing that are not appropriate for children when the retrieved user preferences indicate that children are present.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia device is a digital video recorder (DVR).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia device is digital audio player.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded multimedia content includes advertisements.

3. An apparatus for a multimedia mobile personalization system, comprising:

a receiver, on a multimedia device, that receives from a remote control a plurality of signals from a plurality of user identification tags, the remote control simultaneously detecting the plurality of signals from the plurality of user identification tags, a signal contains an identifier for a user;

a logic at the multimedia device that retrieves user preferences associated with the received plurality of signals;

in response to retrieving the user preferences;

a logic at the multimedia device determines common interests between the retrieved user preferences, the multimedia device customizes its operations based on the determined common interests between the retrieved user preferences; and

a logic at the multimedia device that, in response to a user command, displays a listing of recorded multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the multimedia device customizes its display of the displayed listing of recorded multimedia content by not displaying recorded multimedia content in the listing that are not appropriate for children when the retrieved user preferences indicate that children are present.

11. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the multimedia device is a digital video recorder (DVR).

12. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the multimedia device is digital audio player.

13. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a recording logic at the multimedia device that records multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

14. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the recorded multimedia content includes advertisements.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for a multimedia mobile personalization system, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

receiving from a remote control, by a multimedia device, a plurality of signals from a plurality of user identification tags, the remote control simultaneously detecting the plurality of signals from the plurality of user identification tags, a signal contains an identifier for a user;

retrieving, by the multimedia device, user preferences associated with the received plurality of signals;

in response to retrieving the user preferences;

determining common interests between the retrieved user preferences, the multimedia device customizes its operations based on the determined common interests between the retrieved user preferences; and

in response to a user command, the multimedia device displaying a listing of recorded multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the multimedia device customizes its display of the displayed listing of recorded multimedia content by not displaying recorded multimedia content in the listing that are not appropriate for children when the retrieved user preferences indicate that children are present.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the multimedia device is a digital video recorder (DVR).

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the multimedia device is digital audio player.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to further perform:

recording multimedia content that the determined common interests indicate are of interest to users identified by the retrieved user preferences.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the recorded multimedia content includes advertisements.