Patent ID: 11889150
Assignee: TIVO CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
receiving, by a user device, control information indicative of a first downstream channel and a first content identifier (CID), wherein the first CID is received in an information stream transported in the first downstream channel, the information stream comprising a media asset, wherein the user device is prevented from upstream communication by an operational condition, and wherein the user device is configured to render payload data contained in the control information and an identifier representative of a rendering capability of the user device;
sending, to a computing device, the identifier representative of the rendering capability of the user device;
causing the computing device to determine based on the identifier if the media asset is suitable to be consumed via the user device by comparing a type of the media asset with the rendering capability of the user device.