Method and apparatus for selective playing of digital media
CA 2459419 A1 · Owner: Siddiqui, Najmul H. · Inventors: Siddiqui, Najmul H.
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A method and apparatus for enabling a viewer to deselect certain portions of programming the viewer finds objectionable enable the viewer to skip over scenes in a digital media program that the viewer finds objectionable. Alternatively or in addition to, some embodiments enable the viewer to select alternative scenes of the same program recorded by the producer that do not include the objectionable material. A computer readable media has encoded thereon predetermined navigational threads that tell a playback device the proper sequence of program segments to play to meet a user specified content rating threshold.
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- Filed August 13, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 13, 2022.
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