US Patent:
20170366859, Dec 21, 2017
Inventors:
- San Carlos CA, US
China Arai - Valley Glen CA, US
Marine Chimayan - Valley Village CA, US
Kim T. Nguyen - San Gabriel CA, US
International Classification:
H04N 21/472
H04N 21/45
H04N 21/482
H04N 21/845
Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically overriding an auto-skip command embedded in a media asset annotation when a user profile indicates a preference for content that is to be auto-skipped. To this end, a media guidance application may play back a media asset to a user, and detect therein a skip annotation that corresponds to a portion of the media asset that is to be played back. The media guidance application may, in response to detecting the skip annotation, access metadata indicating content of the portion, compare the metadata to entries of a profile of the user, and determine whether the user prefers the content based on the comparing. If the user prefers the content, the media guidance application may refrain from executing a skip command indicated by the skip annotation.