Systems and methods for personalized television viewing

摘要

A personalized television viewing system includes a head-end subsystem. The head-end subsystem includes a personality server configured to store a user preference regarding a television viewing format and a rendering server configured to provide digital media content in the television format of the user's preference. The viewing system further includes a client-end subsystem. The client-end subsystem includes a client server configured to electronically communicate with the head-end subsystem and provide the personality server with the user preference regarding the television viewing format.

主权项

1. A personalized television viewing system, comprising:
a personality server that stores a user preference regarding a television viewing format; a rendering server that provides digital media content in the television format of the user's preference; and a client server that electronically communicates with the personality server and provides the personality server with the user preference regarding the television viewing format, wherein the client server receives a plurality of electronic signals from a plurality of user-end electronic devices indicating a presence of a plurality of users; wherein the client server further determines that each of the plurality of users has previously input a preference regarding a television viewing format by electronically querying the personality server, and wherein if two or more of the plurality of users have different preferences regarding the television viewing format, the rendering server provides the digital media content in a viewing format that is based at least in part on the respective viewing preferences of each of the plurality of users, and wherein if each of the plurality of users have the same preference regarding the television viewing format, the rendering service provides the digital media content according to such preference.