Rovi Guides, Inc.

Alex Helsinger

Michael Papish

Benjamin Green

Jim Fingal

Matt Pakulski

Jacob Kramer

Systems and methods are described for providing content recommendations by maintaining preference values indicative of a user's preference (e.g., degree of like or dislike) for different assets and updating these preference values based on observed events and known relationships between events and content elements. Also disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing content recommendations using polarity scores, which represent how much user preferences for certain content differ from the average user preference for that content.

Systems and methods for providing media recommendations

Methods and systems are described for generating media playlists, or selecting a media asset, according to a 'shape' selected by a user. Specifically, a user may 'shape' the playlist by designating specific sub-categories of media assets that should be presented at selected times in the playlist. The media application then interpolates the sub-categories for a media asset between the selected times such that adjacent media assets have smooth categorical transitions (e.g., feature incremental changes in the range of sub-categories).

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Alex Helsinger