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US 2017/0374397 A1Published application
Context-sensitive notification display
AssigneeEchostar Ukraine, L.L.C.
InventorIgor Rylskiy
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Abstract
Controlling the display of notifications to a television viewer based on a contextual parameter that is associated with programming instantly being viewed. An example of such a parameter may include the degree of tension or conflict in a particular movie that is being watched by the television viewer. In this example, a television reciever may monitor during output of the particular movie underlying metadata that quantifies the degree of tension or conflict in the particular movie at particular instants in time.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- outputting, by a television receiver, particular programming content for display by a presentation device;
- monitoring, by the television receiver, a stream of metadata that is temporally synchronized to the particular programming content;
- and
- blocking, by the television receiver, output of a notification for display by the presentation device during the outputting of the particular programming content at a time and when a particular instance of metadata of the stream of metadata has a discrete value that is greater than or equal to a pre-defined and user-configurable threshold value.
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A television receiver, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory element communicatively coupled with and readable by the processor, and having stored therein processor-readable instructions that when executed cause the processor to:
- monitor a stream of metadata that is synchronized to particular programming content as the particular programming content is output for display by a presentation device communicatively coupled to the television receiver;
- and
- prevent output of a notification for display by the presentation device during the output of the particular programming content at a time and when a particular instance of metadata of the stream of metadata has a value that is greater than or equal to a particular threshold value.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- monitoring, by a computing device, a track of metadata that is synchronized to particular media content, during the output of the particular media content for display by a presentation device;
- determining, by the computing device at a particular time, that a particular instance of metadata of the stream of metadata has a value that is greater than or equal to a threshold value;
- and
- blocking, by the computing device in response to the determining, output of any notifications for display by the presentation device during the outputting of the particular programming content starting at the particular time and for a pre-defined time period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.