Patent ID: 7975283

Claim:
A method to conserve bandwidth, comprising: receiving information indicating whether a presence of an individual is detected; if the presence of the individual is detected, then delivering a stream of data to a multimedia device; if the presence of the individual is not detected, then degrading the stream of data to a degraded stream of data and delivering the degraded stream of data to the multimedia device to conserve bandwidth, the multimedia device being powered on; wherein the degraded stream of data comprises a discarded audio portion of the stream of data and a discarded video portion of the stream of data; prior to delivering the degraded stream of data, displaying a first message which asks the individual to indicate its presence to prevent delivering the degraded stream of data; when delivering the degraded stream of data, displaying a second message to the individual indicating: that the degraded stream of data is being presented and that that the degraded stream of data will be automatically restored when the presence of the individual is detected; and when delivering the degraded stream of data, displaying a third message to the individual indicating select a restore button displayed on the multimedia device to change from the degraded stream of data to the stream of data.