Patent ID: 8104054

Claim:
A method to conserve bandwidth, comprising: monitoring by a presence detection application on a user device a user's bandwidth consumption of a communication network; wherein the presence detection application on the user device is configured to determine a presence of a user; receiving by the presence detection application a historical pattern describing a top of an hour user inputs, the top of the hour user inputs corresponding to channel surfing on a television; determining, by the presence detection application, that user inputs are to be received based on the historical pattern describing the top of the hour user inputs corresponding to channel surfing on the television; wherein the presence detection application is configured to decide to ignore the historical pattern describing the top of the hour user inputs corresponding to channel surfing on the television when the user is consuming a movie that does not transition to advertisements, in which deciding to ignore the historical pattern describing the top of the hour user inputs corresponding to channel surfing on the television causes the presence detection application to refrain from indicating that the user is absent and to maintain the user's bandwidth consumption.