Method of providing user-tailored entertainment experience at hospitality location and hospitality media system thereof
AssigneeGuest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
InventorsArnon Levy, Peter Warrick, Lindsey Carriere, Darren Ziebart, Joseph Kullos, Diego Fontes, Andrew MacMillan
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Abstract
A hospitality media system includes a plurality of entertainment devices installed at a hospitality location and a content selector. The content selector is configured to retrieve a plurality of user profiles corresponding to current users of the hospitality location, and automatically adjust content made available on each of the entertainment devices at the hospitality location according to information stored in the user profiles.
Claims20
A method of providing a user-tailored entertainment experience by a hospitality media system comprising one or more satellite receivers, the method comprising:
- retrieving a plurality of user profiles corresponding to guests of a hospitality location;
- automatically selecting a core set of satellite channels to make available for viewing at the hospitality location according to at least information stored in the user profiles;
- the core set including up to a predetermined number of different channels of media content selected from a plurality of available satellite channels, wherein the predetermined number is less than a total number of the available satellite channels;
- controlling the one or more satellite receivers to concurrently decode substantially in real-time all of the automatically selected core set of satellite channels, whereby one of the satellite receivers is reserved for each of the different channels in the core set to thereby ensure that all of the core set of satellite channels can be concurrently distributed substantially in real-time to the hospitality location;
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- distributing decoded channels of the core set from the one or more satellite receivers to a plurality of entertainment devices at the hospitality location, wherein each of the entertainment devices allows viewing of one or more of the core set of satellite channels by a respective guest of the hospitality location.
A hospitality media system for providing a user-tailored entertainment experience, the hospitality media system comprising one or more satellite receivers and a content selector coupled to the one or more satellite receivers;
- the content selector configured to:
- retrieve a plurality of user profiles corresponding to guests of a hospitality location;
- automatically select a core set of satellite channels to make available for viewing at the hospitality location according to at least information stored in the user profiles;
- the core set including up to a predetermined number of different channels of media content selected from a plurality of available satellite channels, wherein the predetermined number is less than a total number of the available satellite channels;
- control the one or more satellite receivers to concurrently decode substantially in real-time all of the automatically selected core set of satellite channels, whereby one of the satellite receivers is reserved for each of the different channels in the core set to thereby ensure that all of the core set of satellite channels can be concurrently distributed substantially in real-time to the hospitality location;
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- distribute decoded channels of the core set from the one or more satellite receivers to a plurality of entertainment devices at the hospitality location, wherein each of the entertainment devices allows viewing of one or more of the core set of satellite channels by a respective guest of the hospitality location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.