Method and System for Content Switching and Content Control Based on Facial Identification Profiling

A customer-premises equipment device comprising:

• a camera configured to capture facial information of a plurality of users viewing content on a media play device, the media play device configured to display content from the customer-premises equipment device;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• forward the captured facial information of the plurality of users to a server, the server configured to receive the captured facial information of the plurality of users and identify each of the plurality of users based on the facial information captured by the set-top box and creating a plurality of multi-user profiles for each combination of the plurality of users;
• send the captured facial information on the two or more users of the plurality of user viewing content on the media play device to the server;
• and
• receive recommended content for the two or more users viewing the media play device based on a multi-user profile for the two or more users from the plurality of user profiles.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• capturing, by a set-top box, facial information of a plurality of users;
• forwarding, by the set-top box, the captured facial information of the plurality of users to a server, the server configured to receive the captured facial information of the plurality of users and identify each of the plurality of users based on the facial information captured by the set-top box and creating a plurality of multi-user profiles for each combination of the plurality of users;
• capturing, by the set-top box, the facial information on two or more users of the plurality of users viewing content on a media play device, the media play device configured to display content from the set-top box;
• sending, by the set-top box, the captured facial information on the two or more users of the plurality of user viewing content on the media play device to the server;
• and
• receiving, on the set-top box, recommended content for the two or more users viewing the media play device based on a multi-user profile for the two or more users from the plurality of user profiles.