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US 11,910,065 B2Granted
Automatic contact information transmission system
AssigneeTiVo Solutions Inc.
InventorsJames M. Barton, Brian Lanier
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Abstract
According to one aspect, a DVR sends a user's contact information over a network to a third party. Upon determining that a television program or advertisement contains a special tag that is associated with a third party, the DVR displays, to the user, a prompt that invites the DVR user to allow the DVR to send the user's contact information to the third party. If the user gives permission for the DVR to send the contact information to the third party, then the DVR sends the contact information to the third party (e.g., over the Internet).
Claims26
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a multimedia device, a request associated with content being displayed on the multimedia device for the multimedia device to send a user's contact information, wherein the request for the multimedia device to send the user's contact information comprises an information code specifying which subset of the user's contact information is to be transmitted;
- generating for display a prompt associated with the information code requesting permission from the user to send the user's contact information;
- and
- in response to receiving input granting permission that is responsive to the prompt:
- identifying in storage of the multimedia device the subset of the user's contact information specified by the information code;
- and
- causing the subset of the user's contact information specified by the information code to be retrieved from the storage of the multimedia device and to be sent to an external device.
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A system comprising:
- storage;
- control circuitry configured to:
- detect a request associated with content being displayed on a multimedia device for the multimedia device to send a user's contact information, wherein the request for the multimedia device to send the user's contact information comprises an information code specifying which subset of the user's contact information is to be transmitted;
- input/output circuitry configured to:
- generate for display a prompt associated with the information code requesting permission from the user to send the user's contact information;
- and
- wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:
- in response to receiving input granting permission that is responsive to the prompt:
- identify in the storage the subset of the user's contact information specified by the information code;
- and
- cause the subset of the user's contact information specified by the information code to be retrieved from the storage and to be sent to an external device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.