# US 2014/0157320 A1 · Meta Channel Based Media System Control Technology

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- Number: US 2014/0157320 A1
- Document ID: US20140157320A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/174,430
- Filed: 2014-02-06
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Earliest claimed: 2009-02-05
- Assignees: PurpleComm Inc.
- Applicants: Purplecomm Inc.
- Inventors: JACK H. CHANG; WILLIAM H. SHEU; SHERMAN TUAN
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140157320A1

## CPC

- H04N 21/482: End-user interface for programme selection
- G06F 16/4387: {by the use of playlists}
- H04L 12/2812: {describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content (retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95)}
- H04L 12/282: {based on user interaction within the home (receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204)}
- H04N 7/17318: {Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests}
- H04N 21/235: Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
- H04N 21/41265: {having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device (unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204)}
- H04N 21/435: Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
- H04N 21/4532: {involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18)}
- H04N 21/462: Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
- H04N 21/4622: {Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859)}
- H04N 21/4755: {for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre (retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306)}
- H04N 21/4821: {using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time}
- H04N 21/4826: {using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score}
- H04N 21/64322: {IP}
- H04L 2012/2849: {Audio/video appliances}
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

Meta-channels identify content entries and indicate an order with which to experience the content entries. The meta-channels may include a multi-source meta-channel that includes at least a first content entry that relates to first content broadcast by a first content provider at a specific time and a second content entry that relates to second content made available, over a network, by a second content provider in response to user requests. A selection of a meta-channel is received and the selection of the meta-channel is mapped to a content entry defined by the selected meta-channel. A media system is controlled to render content based on a content entry mapped to by the selected meta-channel.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of controlling a media system based on meta-channel information, the method comprising:
storing, in electronic storage, meta-channel information defining multiple meta-channels that identify content entries and that indicate an order with which to experience the content entries;
receiving, from a particular user, a selection of a meta-channel included in the multiple meta-channels defined by the meta-channel information;
accessing, from the electronic storage, meta-channel information corresponding to the selected meta-channel;
based on the accessed meta-channel information corresponding to the selected meta-channel, determining that the selected meta-channel defines a dynamically configurable content entry that maps to multiple possible content entries;
accessing preferences of the particular user;
selecting, from among the multiple possible content entries, a single content entry for the dynamically configurable content entry based on the accessed preferences of the particular user; and
controlling a media system to render content based on the selected content entry.