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US 8,266,665 B2Granted
TV screen capture
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsSyed Zafar Beyabani, Siddharth Pandey, Ruchir Rodrigues
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Abstract
A method may include receiving, by a video client, a screen capture request, determining a type of screen capture, generating screen capture type information based on a result of determining the type of screen capture, analyzing at least one of screen capture data or screen capture type information, and providing a service to a user of the video client based on the analysis of the at least one of screen capture data or screen capture type information.
Claims22
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a video client, a screen capture request to capture one or multiple screenshots of content from a user;
- determining a type of screen capture request based on whether a first input or a second input is received by the video client;
- capturing the one or multiple screenshots of content based on the screen capture request;
- determining whether the one or multiple screenshots of content pertain to a troubleshooting service or an entertainment service based on the determined type of screen capture request and a favorites list associated with the user;
- generating screen capture type information that indicates whether the one or multiple screenshots of content pertain to the troubleshooting service or the entertainment service based on the determining whether the one or multiple screenshots of content pertain to the troubleshooting service or the entertainment service;
- analyzing at least one of the one or multiple screenshots of content or the screen capture type information;
- and
- providing the troubleshooting service or the entertainment service to a user of the video client based on the analyzing of the at least one of the one or multiple screenshots of content or the screen capture type information.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by at least one processor that provides video signals for a display, the computer-readable storage medium comprising:
- one or more instructions for providing video content on the display;
- one or more instructions for detecting a screen capture request based on a user's input;
- one or more instructions for determining a type of screen capture request based on whether the user's input corresponds to a first input or a second input;
- one or more instructions for capturing a video screenshot of the video content;
- one or more instructions for determining whether the video screenshot pertains to a troubleshooting service or a media-related service based on the determined type of screen capture request and a favorites list associated with the user;
- one or more instructions for generating screen capture type information that indicates whether the video screenshot pertains to the troubleshooting service or the media-related service based on the determining whether the video screenshot pertains to the troubleshooting service or the media-related service;
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- one or more instructions for sending the video screenshot and the screen capture type information to another device to provide the troubleshooting service or the media-related service based on at least one of the video screenshot or the screen capture type information.
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A device, comprising:
- a memory to store instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to:
- receive a selection from a user to capture a screenshot;
- determine a type of screen capture selection based on whether a first input or a second input is received;
- capture the screenshot;
- determine whether the screenshot pertains to a troubleshooting service or a media-related service based on the determined type of screen capture selection and a favorites list associated with the user;
- generate screen capture type information that indicates whether the screenshot pertains to the troubleshooting service or the media-related service;
- and
- send the screenshot and the screen capture type information to another device to provide the troubleshooting service or the media-related service to the user.
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A system comprising:
- a video device comprising:
- a memory to store instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to:
- provide video content to a user on a display;
- determine whether an error or a failure exists with respect to a video signal received for displaying the video content;
- automatically capture a screenshot from the video content when it is determined that the error or the failure exists;
- generate screen capture type information that indicates that the screenshot pertains to a troubleshooting service;
- and
- output the screenshot and the screen capture type information to a server to correct video reception on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.