Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090267780 | INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONALITY ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS - In an electronic device having a graphical output device, a method of controlling input/output characteristics of the output device includes sensing at least one environmental condition, selecting display characteristics of the electronic device based on the environmental condition, and selectively altering size of text displayed on the graphical output device in response to the selected display characteristics. | 10-29-2009 |
20100056042 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A DEVICE - Providing content to a device. Content stored on a device can be examined or searched based on the programming of channels that are available to the device over various networks. The content can be searched using other rules related to user preferences or content characteristics. Based on the results of the examination of the content, playlists are generated. Each playlist includes content from the device that matches or partially matches the content associated with one of the channels. Using the playlists, a user can load content from their device that has a theme consistent with a particular channel. When signal loss is detected for a given channel, the playlist associated with that channel can be loaded and played by the device. The device can resume playing the channel when the signal is again adequately detected. | 03-04-2010 |
20100106572 | ACCESS POINT ADVERTISING - Systems and methods for providing advertisement supported free access to a network. An access point of the network may provide advertisements to a media device for viewing prior to free access being granted. Alternatively, the advertisements may reside on the media device for viewing prior to free access being granted. | 04-29-2010 |
20100106848 | USER CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS OF MULTIPLE INFORMATION SERVICES - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for generating a user configurable interface view for a media device or other information handling system that is independent of any interface views defined by media content providers. Generating the user configurable interface view includes identifying content data streams that are included in user interface views defined by the media content providers and then selecting a desired subset of the data content streams. The selected data content streams are then aggregated and the user configurable interface view is generated. The resulting user interface view will be independent of any interface views defined by the media content providers. | 04-29-2010 |
20100107188 | INTERSTITIAL ADVERTISEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT DOWNLOADS - A method and system for a media device to interstitially place advertisement data between content data. The method may include receiving content data and advertisement data. Desired content may then be selected. Advertisement data that is related to the selected content is also selected. A data stream that includes the advertisement data interstitially placed between the content data is then generated and communicated to the user of the device. In this way, free downloads of content may be provided. | 04-29-2010 |
20100137036 | COMMUNITY NETWORKING USING NETWORKED AUDIO DEVICES - A computing system for gathering media status information and other information about contacts in a user's contact list includes a server, a user device, and one or more contacts (or contact devices). The user device communicates with the server and requests media status information regarding the contacts. Media status information may include information about the media content currently (or most recently) accessed by the contacts. The server receives the request from the user device, collects the information and sends it to the user device. The server may else send connection information to the user device. The user device receives the information and displays it to the user. The user device may include a message service such that messages can be sent to and received from the contacts. Also, the user may request particular media content accessed by the contacts. | 06-03-2010 |
20100163613 | AUTOMATED PROXIMITY-RELATED NETWORK AUTHORIZATION - Systems and methods for inputting configuration and network authorization information into a media device such that the media device may interface with media content providers and wireless networks. A service center collects configuration and network authorization information for a media device and generates a configuration module based thereon. The configuration module is then converted into the form of barcode which is provided to a media device capable of reading a barcode. The media device decodes the barcode and extracts the configuration module. The extracted configuration module is installed on the media device, configuring the device to access predetermined media content providers and/or wireless networks. | 07-01-2010 |
20130219255 | Authorized Syndicated Descriptions of Linked Web Content Displayed With Links in User-Generated Content - Syndicated descriptions of web content are obtained from feeds. For each item of each feed, a link is followed to a content page, and it is determined whether the content page directly or indirectly points back to the feed. If so, the description of the item from the feed is stored as an authorized description with a canonical form of the link to the item. Subsequently, when an item of user-generated content that includes a link to web content is received, the link to the web content is canonicalized. Based on the canonicalized link, any stored authorized syndicated descriptions of the linked content is obtained. If more than one authorized syndicated description of an item of linked content is available, one is selected. Then, the item of user-generated content containing a link can be published with an authorized syndicated description of the linked content. | 08-22-2013 |
20130300763 | Rendering Changed Portions of Composited Images - Rendering graphics on a display of a device. In a portable or wireless device, a list of instructions needed to refresh or generate a frame is first created. The created instructions are then parsed or optimized to remove instructions that result in unnecessary processing instructions. The optimized list is then executed. During generation of a given frame, a view hierarchy is traversed to identify damaged portions of a display. The damaged portions are not copied to the frame. Also, information that has not changed is likewise not usually copied. Damage from the previous frame less damage from the current frame is copied to the appropriate buffer. The instructions are optimized to render only the portion of the frame that is necessary. Portions of the display that are not visible are not traversed in the view hierarchy and are not considered until visible on the display. | 11-14-2013 |
20140074863 | GENERATING AN IMPLIED OBJECT GRAPH BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - An online system generates implied links between objects distributed by the online system based on a plurality of users' behaviors with respect to the objects. For a behavior of a user with respect to an object that satisfies a link criterion, the online system identifies a connection between the user and the object. Local object graphs are generated to represent the relationships between the objects connected to each user, and the local object graphs are merged into a global object graph. An adjacency matrix is extracted from the global object graph as a representation of the strength of relationships between the objects distributed by the online system. The online system may then apply graph analysis techniques to the adjacency matrix, thereby analyzing the relationships between the objects without relying upon explicit links between the objects. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074934 | ANALYZING SOCIAL PROXIMITY OF USERS OF A DIGITAL MAGAZINE SERVER - Connections between an online system user and one or more social networking system users maintained by various social networking systems are analyzed to determine social proximity between the online system user and social networking system users connected to the online system user via a social networking system. Social networking system users connected to the online system user via each of a plurality of social networking systems are identified. Based on a number of social networking system users connected to both the online system user and to a social networking system user connected to the online system user, a social proximity score indicating relative social “closeness” of the digital magazine server user and the social networking system user connected to the digital magazine server user is generated. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075296 | Generating a Cover for a Section of a Digital Magazine - A digital magazine application executing on a client device presents a digital magazine to a user including content items retrieved from one or more sources based on information associated with the user. When presenting the digital magazine, a cover is presented including an image and one or more headlines describing one or more content items included in the digital magazine. The cover may be generated by clustering content items included in the digital magazine and ranking content items in various clusters based on their characteristics. Based on the rankings, information describing content items from various clusters is included on the cover. Alternatively, the cover includes information describing content items identified based on the order in which the content items are presented by the digital magazine. | 03-13-2014 |
20140379759 | PROGRAMMING CONTENT ON A DEVICE - Discovering content on a device. Content stored on a device can be examined or searched based on the programming of channels that are available to the device. The content can be searched using other rules related to user preferences. Based on the results of the examination of the content, playlists are generated. Each playlist includes content from the device that matches or partially matches the content associated with one of the channels. Using the playlists, a user can load content from their device that has a theme consistent with a particular channel. The playlists can also be used to tune to the channels associated with the playlists and thereby discover the content on those channels. | 12-25-2014 |
20150033124 | USER CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS OF MULTIPLE INFORMATION SERVICES - A user configurable interface view can be generated for a media device or other information handling system that is independent of any interface views defined by media content providers. Generating the user configurable interface view includes identifying content data streams that are included in user interface views defined by the media content providers and then selecting a desired subset of the data content streams. The selected data content streams are then aggregated and the user configurable interface view is generated. The resulting user interface view will be independent of any interface views defined by the media content providers. | 01-29-2015 |