Methods, systems, and products for content blocking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8935722-B2
Application number	US-201213365294-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2012
Priority date	Jun 20, 2002
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products block objectionable content and substitute alternative content. A preferred tag is retrieved from memory. An alternative tag, associated with alternative content, is also retrieved from the memory. When the preferred tag matches the alternative tag, then the alternative content is substituted for the objectionable content.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
determining content, received by a device, is objectionable;
blocking, by the device, the content from presentation;
retrieving, by the device, preferred tags associated with a profile;
retrieving, by the device, an alternative tag associated with alternative content;
comparing, by the device, the preferred tags to the alternative tag;
setting, by the device, an initial value of a score to zero;
incrementing, by the de…

Assignees

• Matz William R
• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Matz William R

Classifications

• H04N21/44222

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• H04N21/44016

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• H04N21/4542

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• H04N7/163

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4882

  Electricity · mapped topic