Multimedia mobile personalization system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9282273-B2
Application number	US-46481909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2009
Priority date	Mar 30, 1999
Publication date	Mar 8, 2016
Grant date	Mar 8, 2016

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Assignees

• Lockett David
• Feder Adam
• Barton James M
• Klar Michael F
• Goodman Andrew M
• Platt David C
• Beach Brian
• Brown David Avraham
• Tivo Inc

Inventors

• Lockett David
• Feder Adam
• Barton James M
• Klar Michael F
• Goodman Andrew M
• Platt David C
• Beach Brian
• Brown David Avraham

Classifications

• H04N5/44582

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/441

  Acquiring end-user identification {, e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card} · CPC title

• H04N21/42204 Primary

  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 title

• H04N5/44543 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/4403

  Electricity · mapped topic