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

Claim 6:
7. A method comprising:
identifying a media content item being output by a user device;
retrieving 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;

in response to detecting that the identified media content item has the first media characteristic and prior to outputting the identified media content item for the entire identified time duration onto the user device:
generating a playlist manifest including a fourth media content item having the first and second media characteristics;
transmitting the playlist manifest to the user device; and
after transmitting the playlist manifest, transmitting a fifth media content item lacking the first media characteristic and having the second media characteristic to the user device.