LOCAL CHANNELS ANYWHERE

Patent №

US 9,686,032

Granted

2017-06-20

Filed 2014

Owner

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14292533

A mobile viewing method includes accessing location information indicative of a current location of a mobile device associated with a home market. A current market corresponding to the current location of the mobile device is identified. If the current market differs from the home market, the mobile device is granted access to a retransmission of at least one local channel of the current market. The location information may include GPS information indicative of GPS coordinates of the mobile device. The mobile device may include a mobile viewing application that displays a channel guide indicating local channels available in the current market and national channels. The mobile viewing application may include a summary of the current market and the summary may include weather, news headline, and local advertisement information.

PlanningH04H 60/85H04H 20/57H04H 60/15H04H 60/51H04H 60/63H04H 60/91H04W 4/02H04W 4/029

AI classification

Planning0.67
Knowledge representation0.09
Evolutionary computation0.06
AI hardware0.02
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

assignment · 369930710

Assignors

THOMAS, MICHAEL S., COSTNER, WES G., FERMAN, ADAM

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

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