US Patent:
20070245373, Oct 18, 2007
Inventors:
Fernando Gil - Stanford CA, US
Bryan Hallberg - Vancouver WA, US
International Classification:
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/10
H04N 7/025
G06F 13/00
US Classification:
725035000, 725034000, 725045000
Abstract:
An exemplary method to help end users configure their respective media playing sets includes prompting the user for their geographical location, transmitting the location to a remote processing site which identifies broadcast settings particularly suited for the location, and adjusting the set remotely from the site to fully implement automatically the settings. Another such method includes establishing a list of viewing categories, identifying preferred broadcast settings for each category, determining preferred categories for previous day/time combinations, predicting most likely to favored categories and settings, and automatically implementing such settings when the corresponding day/time combination is present. Yet another such method includes characterizing a particular program segment by at least one broadcast attribute, determining those broadcast settings most favorable for this segment based on such characterizing, and adjusting the set automatically for the user to implement these most favorable broadcast settings for the segment.
