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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsSrinivas Gutta, Lalitha Agnihotri, Mi-Suen Lee, Santhana Krishnamachari
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Entertainment recommendations are made to a user of receivers responsive to broadcast signals. The receivers include an automotive vehicle radio receiver, a residential television receiver, a residential radio receiver, a residential or automotive CD player, and a receiver of Internet content, that is, a personal computer having a modem connection to the Internet. A storage device associated with at least two of the receivers stores compiled information about the user's program type preferences for the associated receivers. A signal combiner associated with at least one of the receivers combines the user's program type preferences for the receivers. A display coupled with the signal combiner makes the recommendations in response to the combined user's program type preferences for the receivers.
A method of making entertainment recommendations to a user of receivers responsive to broadcast signals comprising compiling information about the user's program type preferences for at least two of the receivers, combining the user's program type preferences for said at least two of the receivers, and making the entertainment recommendations in response to the combined user's program type preferences for said at least two of the receivers.
Apparatus for enabling entertainment recommendations to be made to a user of receivers responsive to broadcast signals comprising a storage device associated with each of at least two of the receivers, each of the storage devices being arranged for storing information about the user's program type preferences for the associated receiver, a signal combiner associated with at least a first of the receivers for combining the user's program type preferences for said at least two of the receivers, and an output device coupled with the signal combiner for making the entertainment recommendations in response to the combined user's program type preferences for said at least two of the receivers.
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