Patent ID: 11889137
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system for seamlessly connecting to a user's device in order to share and display a media asset featuring content of interest to the user, the system comprising:
control circuitry configured to:
determine that a first device associated with a first user has entered an environment in which a second device associated with a second user is located;
determine whether a media asset stored on the first device is of interest to the second user; and
in response to determining that the media asset stored on the first device is of interest to the second user:
determine whether a number of times that devices associated with the first user have been granted access rights to devices associated with the second user meets or exceeds a threshold; and
based on determining that the number of times that devices associated with the first user have been granted access rights to devices associated with the second user meets or exceeds the threshold, automatically grant, to the first device, access rights to the second device.