US 11,122,312 B2 · Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for activating a personalized user profile on a device based on the detection of an outlying user input. A media guidance application detects a user input that is inconsistent with an active user profile. In response, the media guidance application identifies a candidate user that both shares a location with the device and has a user profile consistent with the user input. The media guidance application activates the user profile of the candidate user as a temporary active user profile on the device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving an input on a first device;
detecting that the first device is located within a threshold distance of a second device;
in response to the detecting that the first device is located within a proximity of the second device:
determining that the input received on the first device is consistent with an active profile on the second device, wherein the active profile on the second device is associated with a user of a second device;
in response to determining that the input on the first device is consistent with the active profile on the second device, activating the active profile on the second device as a temporary active profile on the first device.

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A system comprising control circuitry configured to:

receive an input on a first device;
detect that the first device is located within a threshold distance of a second device;
in response to the detecting that the first device is located within a proximity of the second device:
determine that the input received on the first device is consistent with an active profile on the second device, wherein the active profile on the second device is associated with a user of a second device;
in response to determining that the input on the first device is consistent with the active profile on the second device, activate the active profile on the second device as a temporary active profile on the first device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/093,006Filed 9 Nov 2020 · continuation

Priority

26 Mar 2019

Published

US 2021/0152863 A120 May 2021

Granted

14 Sep 2021

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

H04N 21/252
Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies: processing of multiple end-users' preferences…
H04N 21/4826
End-user interface for programme selection: using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score
H04L 67/306
Profiles: user profiles
H04L 67/52
Network services: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Family

Application16/365,283Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Mar 2019

US 2021/0152863 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 May 2021

US 10,863,219 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2020/0314471 A1Published application

US 11,122,312 B2This patent

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Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles

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Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles

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Abstract

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