Systems and methods for an adaptive electronic program guide
AssigneeDISH Technologies L.L.C.
InventorGregory H. Greene
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Abstract
A set-top box or other receiving device may detect such channels that the EPG cursor visits frequently, visits for relatively long periods of time or that are frequently displayed on the screen in the electronic program guide (EPG), or otherwise frequently visited or viewed. The system determines that such channels are those that the user is likely to return to when browsing the EPG in the future and then adapts the EPG to present such channels on top of the EPG together with each other separately from the other full list of channels presented in the. This may be performed each time the EPG is opened. A customized EPG having the particular group of channels presented according a specific identified user's previous channel browsing activity may also be generated.
Claims20
A system for an adaptive electronic program guide, the system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory has computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- monitor patterns of browsing within an electronic program guide of channels presented in the electronic program guide;
- determine a group of channels presented in the electronic program guide that a user is more likely to return to than other channels presented in the electronic program guide based on the monitored patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide;
- present for selection in the electronic program guide, based on the monitored patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide, the determined group of channels that the user is more likely to return to together with each other separately from the other channels presented in the electronic program guide;
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- automatically customize additional respective electronic program guides for the user across multiple respective remote devices for display on the multiple respective remote devices based on the monitored patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide.
A computerized method for an adaptive electronic program guide, the method comprising:
- determining, by at least one computer processor, an identity of a particular user using an electronic program guide;
- associating with the particular user, by at least one computer processor, patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide of channels presented in the electronic program guide based on the determined identity of the particular user;
- determining, by at least one computer processor, a group of channels presented in the electronic program guide that the particular user is more likely to return to than other channels presented in the electronic program guide based on the monitored patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide associated with the particular user;
- in response to the determination of the identity of the particular user, presenting, by at least one computer processor, for selection in the electronic program guide, based on the associated patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide associated with the particular user, the determined group of channels that the particular user is more likely to return to together with each other separately from the other channels presented in the electronic program guide;
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- automatically customizing additional respective electronic program guides for the particular user across multiple respective remote devices for display on the multiple respective remote devices based on the monitored patterns of browsing within the electronic program guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.