Patent ID: 9392206
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a set top box, one or more user request messages to display one or more auxiliary viewing options from an input device; outputting, to a display device, a plurality of available auxiliary viewing options in response to receiving the one or more user request messages; receiving, at the set top box, one or more user selection messages from the input device, wherein each user selection message includes a selected auxiliary viewing option; outputting, to the display device, video content with one or more selected auxiliary viewing options enabled, wherein the video content is communicated to the set top box including metadata comprising an indication of one or more auxiliary viewing options available to be activated for the video content; generating, at the set top box, auxiliary viewing monitoring data based on the one or more user selection messages, wherein the auxiliary viewing monitoring data comprises the available auxiliary viewing options and an auxiliary viewing option identifier associated with the selected auxiliary viewing option, a display time interval associated with an auxiliary viewing option previously enabled at the set top box, and a channel identifier; determining whether the one or more auxiliary viewing options indicated in the metadata corresponds to at least a portion of the auxiliary viewing monitoring data, wherein the portion of the auxiliary viewing monitoring data comprises the display time interval associated with the auxiliary view option previously enabled at the set top box; and based on the determination, automatically activating one or more corresponding auxiliary viewing options associated with the auxiliary viewing monitoring data that are also available to be activated for the video content.