Patent ID: 6662365
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method for operating and controlling a plurality of parental control subsystems in an audiovisual system, wherein the audiovisual system has a computer and wherein said system is configurable by a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising:interfacing one or more audio and/or audiovisual devices to said computer, wherein at least one of said audio and/or audiovisual devices comprises a native parental control subsystem having adjustable parameters; operating the computer to receive user input, said user input allowing a user to choose one or more general parental control parameters; and operating the computer to set the adjustable parameters of each native parental control subsystem within said system, wherein the adjustable control parameters of the native parental control system include a first parental control scheme and a second parental control scheme, the first parental control scheme being incompatible with the second parental control scheme, and wherein the control programming allows a user to choose general control parameters of the first parental control scheme and the second parental control scheme.