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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
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;

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