Automatic display of a recommended program onto PIP display
OwnerGutta Srinivas, Miroslav Trajkovic +1inventors
InventorsGutta Srinivas, Miroslav Trajkovic, Antonio Colmenarez, JR.
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Abstract
A method for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer. The method including: receiving program content; calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content; and automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold. Preferably, the indication is the display of the received program content, which is more preferably displayed on a picture-in-picture display and which can be switched to a main display, if desired, by the viewer.
Claims20
A method for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer, the method comprising:
- receiving program content;
- calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content;
- and
- automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold.
A device for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer, the device comprising:
- a receiver for receiving program content;
- a recommender for calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content;
- and
- means for automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold.
A computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer, the computer program product comprising:
- computer readable program code means for receiving program content;
- computer readable program code means for calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content;
- and
- computer readable program code means for automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for automatically displaying an indication of a recommended program to a viewer, the method comprising:
- receiving program content;
- calculating a recommendation score for the received program content, the recommendation score indicating a likelihood that the viewer will approve of the received program content;
- and
- automatically displaying an indication of the received program content to the viewer if the recommendation score is above a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.