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US 9,961,387 B2Granted
Profile-based content variation
AssigneeKt Corporation
InventorsIk-chan Uhm, Soyoung Eom, Young-Hwan Yu, Kwan-yeol Lee, Jungho Choi
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Abstract
Profile-based content variation includes determining viewing trends for a television viewing device based on subscriber information and a channel selection history of the television viewing device, matching commerce channels to at least one logical channel based on the determined viewing trends, and broadcasting one of the logical channels that matches one of the selected commerce channels.
Claims18
A method of providing profile-based content variation, comprising:
- determining viewing trends for a television viewing device based on subscriber information and channel selection history of the television viewing device;
- matching one of a plurality of commerce channels with multiple logical channels based on the determined viewing trends;
- broadcasting, to the television viewing device, one of the multiple logical channels that is matched to one of the commerce channels that is selected based on information regarding matches between one of the plurality of commerce channels to the multiple logical channels;
- updating the determined viewing trends;
- and
- updating the multiple logical channels matched with the one of the commerce channels based on the updated viewing trends.
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A commerce channel server, comprising:
- a viewing trend analyzer configured to determine viewing trends for a television viewing device based on subscriber information and channel selection history of the television viewing device;
- a matching information manager configured to match one of a plurality of commerce channels to multiple logical channels based on the determined viewing trends;
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- a channel broadcaster configured to broadcast, to the television viewing device, one of the multiple logical channels that is matched to one of the commerce channels that is selected based on information regarding matches between one of the plurality of commerce channels to the multiple logical channels,
- wherein the viewing trend analyzer is further configured to update the determined viewing trends, and
- the matching information manager is further configured to update the multiple logical channels matched with the one of the commerce channels based on the updated viewing trends.
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A commerce channel system, comprising:
- a commerce channel server;
- and
- a television viewing device,
- wherein the commerce channel server comprises:
- a viewing trend analyzer configured to determine viewing trends for a television viewing device based on subscriber information and channel selection history of the television viewing device,
- a matching information manager configured to match one of the plurality of commerce channels with multiple logical channels based on the determined viewing, and
- a channel broadcaster configured to broadcast, to the television viewing device, one of the multiple logical channels that is matched to one of the commerce channels that is selected based on information regarding matches between one of the plurality of commerce channels to the multiple logical channels;
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- wherein the television viewing device comprises:
- an input receiver configured to input to select a commerce channel from among the plurality of commerce channels,
- a transmitter configured to transmit content for the selected commerce channel to the commerce channel server, and
- a channel receiver configured to receive, from the commerce channel server, at least one of the multiple logical channels that is matched with the selected commerce channel,
- wherein the viewing trend analyzer is further configured to update the determined viewing trends, and
- the matching information manager is further configured to update the multiple logical channels matched with the one of the commerce channels based on the updated viewing trends.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.