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US 2011/0237236 A1Published application
Parent-controlled episodic content on a child telecommunication device
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsMarianna Wickman, Michael Kemery, Winston Wang
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Abstract
Techniques for remotely establishing sequences of content to be enabled on a child device are described herein.
Claims21
A child telecommunications device, comprising:
- an interactive user interface that offers content items to a user of the child telecommunications device;
- the child telecommunications device being configured to perform actions comprising:
- receiving remote configuration information that indicates a sequence of individual content items to be made available on the interactive user interface;
- and
- enabling the individual content items one at a time on the interactive user interface in the sequence indicated by the remote configuration information.
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One or more computer-readable media containing instructions that are executable on a telecommunications device to perform actions comprising:
- receiving remote configuration information that indicates a sequence of individual content items to be made available to a user of the telecommunications device;
- and
- enabling any particular content item of the sequence only when the user of the telecommunications device is done with any preceding content item of the sequence.
A method comprising:
- associating a set of telecommunication devices with a common subscription feature;
- designating a parent device from among the set of telecommunication devices;
- designating a child device from among the set of telecommunication devices;
- configuring the parent device to accept configuration information for the child device from a user of the parent device, the configuration information indicating a sequence of individual content items to be made available on the child device;
- configuring the child device to:
- receive the configuration information;
- and
- enable the individual content items one at a time on an interactive user interface of the child device in the sequence indicated by the configuration information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.