Patent ID: 11902619
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
an input/output (I/O) circuitry configured to:
output a selected media content item onto the user device; and

a control circuitry configured to:
retrieve from memory a media consumption pattern profile, wherein the media consumption pattern profile comprises:
first and second media characteristics associated as a pattern of media consumption, wherein the first media characteristic is different from the second media characteristic; and
an identified time duration indicating how long a first media content item having the first media characteristic was output by a user device before the user device changed, responsive to user input, to outputting a second media content item having the second media characteristic; and

in response to detecting the selected media content item has the first media characteristic and prior to outputting the selected media content item for the entire identified time duration:
output, for a remainder of the identified time duration, a fourth media content item having the first and second media characteristics onto the user device; and
after outputting the fourth media content item for the remainder of the identified time duration, output a fifth media content item lacking the first media characteristic and having the second media characteristic onto the user device.