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US 10,455,274 B2Granted
Methods, systems, and products for control of devices
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsJohn R. Stefanik, George A. Durden
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and products control external devices during presentation of multimedia content. When a description of the multimedia content is received, the description may include control data for controlling a device. The control data may thus be executed to alter a presentation of the multimedia content.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a server, a request to stream an electronic content to a device;
- retrieving, by the server, an electronic description of the electronic content;
- retrieving, by the server, a textual control data for controlling a presentation of the electronic content;
- adding, by the server, the textual control data to a data field in the electronic description;
- and
- sending, by the server, the electronic description of the electronic content via the Internet to the device.
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A system, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a memory device, the memory device storing code, the code when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request to stream an electronic content to a device;
- retrieving an electronic description of the electronic content;
- retrieving a textual control data associated with the electronic content, the textual control data for controlling a presentation of the electronic content;
- adding the textual control data to a data field containing the electronic description;
- and
- sending the electronic description and the textual control data via the Internet to the device.
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A memory device storing code that when executed causes a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a request to stream electronic content to a device;
- retrieving a data field containing an electronic description of the electronic content;
- retrieving a textual control data associated with the electronic content, the textual control data for controlling a presentation of the electronic content;
- adding the textual control data to the data field containing the electronic description of the electronic content;
- and
- sending the electronic description having the textual control data added therein via the Internet to the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.