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US 11,776,384 B2Granted
Methods and apparatus for providing notifications in a media system
AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Putterman, Gregory Peters, Richard Bullwinkle, Kim R. Dykeman, Brad Dietrich
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Abstract
A system to convey user alert messages is disclosed. The system may have a alert service coupled between alert providers and a number of households. After receiving in the alert service an alert message from an alert provider, the alert service may altar the alert message to identify the household designated to receive the alert message. The alert service sends a notification to a home media system within the household designated to receive the alert message.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- prior to generating for display, by control circuitry, an indication of an alert message:
- receiving input, at the control circuitry, of a user setting specifying an alert level for alert messages;
- receiving, at the control circuitry, the alert message from a particular alert provider, wherein the particular alert provider is a third-party alert provider that transmitted the alert from a separate system;
- reading the user setting from memory;
- and
- generating for display, on a display screen and based on reading the user setting from the memory, the indication of the alert message.
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A computer-implemented system comprising:
- memory;
- control circuitry configured to:
- prior to generating for display, by the control circuitry, an indication of an alert message:
- receive input of a user setting specifying an alert level for alert messages;
- receive the alert message from a particular alert provider, wherein the particular alert provider is a third-party alert provider that transmitted the alert from a separate system;
- and
- read the user setting from the memory;
- and
- generate for display, on a display screen and based on reading the user setting from the memory, the indication of the alert message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.