Patent ID: 8635708
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for enforcing parental controls at a mobile media device, the method comprising: establishing, at the mobile media device, a communication link between the mobile media device and a local media device; receiving parental control setting information from the local media device at the mobile media device; receiving at least one media content event and rating information associated with the received media content event at the mobile media device; comparing, at the mobile media device, the rating information associated with the received at least one media content event with the parental control setting information received from the local media device; and preventing presentation of the at least one media content event by the mobile media device if the rating information associated with the received media content event violates the parental control setting information, wherein receiving the parental control setting information occurs in response to establishing the communication link between the mobile media device and the local media device, and wherein receiving the parental control setting information occurs in response to a change in at least one of the parental control setting information and a parental control key at the local media device when the at least one media content event is being received over the communication link at the mobile media device.