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US 2009/0157702 A1Published application
Preference setting in a computer system
AssigneeHarris Technology, LLC
InventorScott C. Harris
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Abstract
A profile of likelihoods of actions that will occur on a computer is stored. The computer may be likely to be off between time periods, e.g., between midnight and 7 am. Some action is taken relative to the actions that are likely to occur, before those actions actually happen.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- in a computer-based device, storing a data structure which includes information about a plurality of specific actions and a plurality of specific times, said information defining a likelihood that one of said actions will be carried out at one of said times;
- using the computer based device for comparing a current time to said times in said data structure;
- determining an action which is probabilistically likely to happen in the computer based device at an operation time, where said operation time includes a current time;
- and
- taking an action on the computer based device, based on what is most likely to happen at said operation time, prior to said actually action actually happening.
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A digital video recorder, comprising:
- a recording part that includes a computer device that records a video program and which allows watching the video program, allows pausing the video program during recording, and rewinding the video program during recording, said recording part storing data indicative of the video program on a memory device;
- and
- a detector, that detects an indication of activity, wherein said computer device operates to continually record during said indication of activity and automatically stops recording responsive to there being no indication of activity for a specified time period.
A method, comprising:
- storing a plurality of profiles representing different actions taken on a computer at different times, said profiles representing a likelihood that said actions will occur at each of a plurality of different times, and each of said profiles including different likelihoods for different times;
- storing information about users who created said profiles;
- allowing a computer user to select one of said profiles;
- and
- based on a selected profile, taking an action on the computer based on something that is likely to happen on the computer, before that action actually happens on the computer.
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A method comprising:
- During a first mode, continually recording an incoming video program;
- Allowing the continually recorded video to be played while recording and to be paused while recording;
- detecting an indication of activity on a device that is used to play the video;
- and
- based on said indication, changing a characteristic of the recording.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.