Patent ID: 9251370
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling personal content on a media device, the method comprising: establishing, using a hardware processor of the media device, a connection with a mobile user device; receiving account information from the mobile user device for an account associated with personal content, the personal content associated with the account accessible by the media device from a server computer using a wide area network; and receiving a usage term from the mobile user device for accessing the personal content of the account, wherein the usage term specifies a rule indicating that upon the mobile user device being disconnected from the media device the media device is to inhibit at least a portion of the personal content associated with the account from being presented; accessing, using the media device, personal content from the server computer; presenting, using the media device, at least a portion of content from the personal content accessed from the server computer; determining that the connection with the mobile user device has been disconnected; and inhibiting presentation, by the media device, of at least the portion of content from the personal content in response to determining that the connection with the mobile user device has been disconnected.