Abstract: An example method, for providing notifications in a wearable device, is disclosed. The method includes identifying an event, determining a category associated with the event, providing a first notification for the event based on the category, and providing a second notification for the event based on the category. The first notification includes a haptic pattern, and the second notification includes a lighting pattern.

Abstract: A user interface is used to assign different devices and device types to media services where the number of different devices and device types that are capable of being assigned is determined by access privilege information corresponding to such media services. When a number of devices of a specific type are assigned where such a number exceeds a limit specified in the access privilege information, the assignment of additional devices of that specific type is halted.

Abstract: A user interface is used to assign different devices and device types to media services where the number of different devices and device types that are capable of being assigned is determined by access privilege information corresponding to such media services. When a number of devices of a specific type are assigned where such a number exceeds a limit specified in the access privilege information, the assignment of additional devices of that specific type is halted.

Abstract: A method for generating recommendations for a group of users is disclosed. The method includes providing a display of a plurality of user representations respectively representing users; receiving a selection of at least two of the user representations to form a group; providing a display of at least one recommendation for a media asset after the group has been formed; and providing a display of an indicator indicating that a user representation in the group is selected as an allowed user representation in the group for selecting one of the at least one recommendation for receipt by user devices respectively associated with the user representations in the group.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating a dynamic selection and transmission of canned messages according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes selecting, at a computing device, a canned message from a plurality of canned messages, where the canned message includes a text message having one or more of a default message, a variable, and a symbol, wherein the selection is to be performed without a keyboard at the computing device, and transmitting the selected canned message.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards receiving media asset recommendations for one or more users according to user profile information. A user interface can be manipulated to selected user representations and have such representations placed in different zones (305, 310, 315, 320). Based on the representations selected, corresponding user profile data that corresponds to the selected user representations can be used to acquire media asset recommendations for the one or more users that were selected. The media asset recommendations can be displayed in a recommendation area (330) as pictures, video, and/or poster art, of the recommended media assets.