Automatic determination and retrieval of a favorite channel
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorRamaiah Satish
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Abstract
A consumer electronic device tracks the current channel to which the electronic consumer device is tuned. The consumer electronic device determines an amount of time that the current channel remains unchanged. Based at least in part on this amount of time, the consumer electronic device determines whether the current channel should be stored as a favorite channel. When the consumer electronic device subsequently receives a favorite channel command, the consumer electronic device is caused to tune to the favorite channel that is currently stored in memory. Changing user preferences are thus automatically accommodated without manual intervention, resulting in an effortless user interface.
Claims16
A non-transitory, computer readable media having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processing device of a controlling device used to transmit media selection commands to a consumer electronic device, causes the processing device of the controlling device to perform steps comprising:
- storing in a memory of the controlling device in an ordered list data indicative of each of a plurality of media selection commands caused to be transmitted to the consumer electronic device by the controlling device;
- in response to an activation of a predetermined input element of the controlling device, causing the controlling device to transmit a one of the plurality of media selection commands to the consumer electronic device;
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- in response to a subsequent activation of an input element of the controlling device that causes a further media selection command to be transmitted to the consumer electronic device, reordering the ordered list as a function of a measured time between the activation of the predetermined input element of the controlling device and the subsequent activation of the input element of the controlling device that causes the further media selection command to be transmitted to the consumer electronic device.
The non-transitory, computer readable media as recited 12, wherein the received input to the controlling device comprises activation of one or more input elements of the controlling device adapted to command functional operations of the electronic consumer device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.