Parental media palettes

摘要

Systems and methods for viewing media content are provided. Sets of permitted media content and/or channels that have been screened in advance by parents are created. Content suggestions may also be made. In response to media set creation and activation, permitted programming in the media set may be tuned and presented to a viewer, while access to other media content is restricted.

主权项

1. A method for controlling the presentation of media content on user equipment, the method comprising:
receiving, using control circuitry, a plurality of media descriptors for inclusion in a set of media descriptors, wherein each media descriptor of the plurality of media descriptors represents an individual permitted media content accessible by a user between a user-defined start time and a user-defined stop time; selecting an attribute of a media descriptor in the set of media descriptors; searching for a suggested media descriptor based on the selected attribute, wherein the suggested media descriptor is not already included in the set of media descriptors, and wherein the suggested media descriptor represents an individual permitted media content accessible by the user between the user-defined start time and the user-defined stop time; generating for display an option to include the suggested media descriptor in the set of media descriptors; receiving user input selecting the option to include the suggested media descriptor in the set of media descriptors; subsequent to the suggested media descriptor being included in the set of media descriptors, receiving a user request for media content between the user-defined start time and the user-defined stop time; and generating for display a media identifier for at least one of the individual permitted media content accessible by the user between the user-defined start time and the user-defined stop time in response to receiving the user request.