{
  "patent_number": "US 8689253",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Remote Servers Automatically Adjust Your TV Settings",
  "original_title": "Method and system for configuring media-playing sets",
  "summary": "A method for a remote server to automatically configure a TV's picture and sound settings by analyzing what other users with similar viewing habits prefer.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a system where a remote server helps users configure their televisions without manual tweaking. The server collects data from many users to identify 'mutually integrable' settings—groups of settings like brightness, contrast, and audio levels that work well together. When a user specifies their viewing context, the server pushes the most popular, statistically favored configuration to their TV. The system also includes a feedback loop where users can use 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' buttons on their remote to accept or reject suggested settings, allowing the server to refine its recommendations over time.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover local-only configuration where settings are stored and applied solely on the TV hardware without a remote server.",
    "Does not cover manual configuration methods that require the user to navigate through traditional on-screen menus.",
    "Does not cover systems that adjust settings based on real-time ambient light sensors rather than statistical user preference data."
  ],
  "filed": "2006-03-03",
  "granted": "2014-04-01",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Sharp Laboratories of America Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/sharp-laboratories-of-america-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Gary A. Feather",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/gary-a-feather"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bryan Severt Hallberg",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/bryan-severt-hallberg"
    },
    {
      "name": "Vishnu-Kumar Shivaji-Rao",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/vishnu-kumar-shivaji-rao"
    },
    {
      "name": "George Rome Borden",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/george-rome-borden"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 4,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "telecommunications"
  ],
  "abstract": "A remote support site having a detector internally collecting information on a user-selectable intrinsic broadcast characteristic of a media-playing set or television and a server enabling specification of a preferred setting for such characteristic from this information. A method including maintaining a remote site, therefrom internally collecting information from the set about a user-selectable intrinsic broadcast characteristic, and therefrom specifying a preferred setting for such characteristic. A similar method but information detected upon user request about user-adjustable component for selecting on-screen characteristic and final step is remotely adjusting component. A similar method but information is about broadcast characteristic potentially selectable initially by user instead remotely specified initially. A similar method but information is about plural broadcast characteristics and final step is remotely providing settings for each. Two methods on menu-free TV control via remote and a method listing possible broadcast outcomes so user can readily target outcome to resolve.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8689253/netflix-recommendation-engine",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8689253/netflix-recommendation-engine/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8689253",
  "relatedPatents": []
}