Multi-user TV user interface
    84.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10521188B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-31

    申请号:US15276633

    申请日:2016-09-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content system. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. The system includes display devices configured to identify and tailor content to multiple individual users. Each user may have individual settings which provide for a customized viewing environment and experience. The system is configured to identify users of the system in order to tailor the content as appropriate. In addition, identification of users allows for the identification of the subscription content that corresponds to the user. Based upon identification of a user and corresponding subscription, the user's subscription content may be streamed to any location. In this manner, the users subscribed content may follow the user from home to a friend's house, or elsewhere.

    Networked media station
    85.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10349261B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15892136

    申请日:2018-02-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a networked media station providing a variety of features including a wireless network interface, a wired network interface, a peripheral interface, and a multimedia interface. The wireless network interface(s) allows the device to communicate to serve as a wireless base station or repeater and/or a bridge between a wireless and a wired network. The peripheral interface allows the device to communicate with a variety of peripherals, and, in conjunction with the network interface(s), allows sharing of a peripheral among multiple networked computers. The multimedia interface allows the device to be used with entertainment devices for streaming of multimedia information from a network connected computer to the entertainment device. Control of various aspects of the device is preferably controlled from a network connected computer.

    NETWORK MEDIA DEVICE
    86.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190158552A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-23

    申请号:US16256535

    申请日:2019-01-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from one or more sources (e.g., a multimedia website or a multimedia server computer) at a first time, stores it to long-term storage within the device and transmits the stored multimedia data to one or more designated multimedia playback devices at a second time.

    User interfaces for navigating and playing content

    公开(公告)号:US10120531B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15017530

    申请日:2016-02-05

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, a first electronic device, during a playlist mode, displays a plurality of representations of content items available on the first electronic device. While in the playlist mode, the first electronic device optionally receives a first input, via one or more input devices, selecting a respective representation of a respective content item from the plurality of representations of content items. In response to receiving the first input, in accordance with a determination that the respective content item was playing on the first electronic device when the first input was received, the first electronic device optionally transitions to a now playing mode. In accordance with a determination that the respective content item was not playing on the first electronic device when the first input was received, the first electronic device optionally plays the respective content item on the first electronic device while remaining in the playlist mode.

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