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US 2014/0196068 A1Published application
System and Method for Providing Program Recommendations Through Multimedia Searching Based on Established Viewer Preferences
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
InventorsLee Begeja, Charles Douglas Blewett, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Kenneth H. Rosen, Behzad Shahraray
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- accessing a profile associated with a video recording device associated with a viewer;
- deriving metadata from multimedia associated with a plurality of programs, the multimedia comprising a preview for one of the plurality of programs;
- selecting the one of the plurality of programs based on the metadata and the profile to generate a program recommendation;
- transmitting the program recommendation to the video recording device associated with the viewer.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory to store computer program instructions, the computer program instructions when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- accessing a profile associated with a video recording device associated with a viewer;
- deriving metadata from multimedia associated with a plurality of programs, the multimedia comprising a preview for one of the plurality of programs;
- selecting the one of the plurality of programs based on the metadata and the profile to generate a program recommendation;
- transmitting the program recommendation to the video recording device associated with the viewer.
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A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions, which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- accessing a profile associated with a video recording device associated with a viewer;
- deriving metadata from multimedia associated with a plurality of programs, the multimedia comprising a preview for one of the plurality of programs;
- selecting the one of the plurality of programs based on the metadata and the profile to generate a program recommendation;
- transmitting the program recommendation to the video recording device associated with the viewer.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.