SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK CHAT VIA A SET-TOP BOX

Patent №

US 8,312,500

Granted

2012-11-13

Filed 2009

Owner

EMBARQ HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12625721

A system and method for chatting between a set-top box and one or more social networks. One or more social networks is associated with a set-top box. User preferences are set for communications with one or more contacts included in the one or more social networks. A chat interface is displayed to a user on a display associated with the set-top box in response to the user preferences and activity trigger determined in response to activity detected by the set-top box. Communications occurs with the one or more contacts using the chat interface.

Knowledge representationH04N 7/17318H04L 51/04H04L 67/306H04N 21/4786H04N 21/4788H04N 21/6543G06F 2221/2117H04L 63/102

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.50
Natural language0.24
Planning0.16
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

EMBARQ HOLDINGS COMPANY, LLC

assignment · 235700781

CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

namechg · 291100613

Assignors

EMERSON, DAVID, ROOKS, KELSYN, LAFRENIERE, GARY W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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