Rovi Guides, Inc.

United Video Properties, Inc.

Brian Craig Peterson

Walter Richard Klappert

Timothy Christensen Kelly

Benjamin H Maughan

David John Wheatley

William Korbecki

David Yon

Vanessa Wickenkamp

Jason William Conness

Patrick Gerard Morgan

Phil Golyshko

William David Amidei

Thomas Steven Woods

Brian Fife

Paul Jensen

James Cornell

Amanda Mallardo

Douglas J Seyller

Jonathan Arme

China Arai

Andrew Fundament

Melissa Bradley

Gaurav Sinha

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a symbol with a plurality of interpretations. Each candidate interpretation for the symbol is identified and compared to an attribute of a user profile. The meaning of the symbol is determined and the user profile is updated with the meaning of the symbol. This meaning may be used to provide relevant information to the user.

Systems and methods for resolving ambiguous terms in social chatter based on a user profile

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a communication from a user associated with multiple media assets. Based on the chronology of the media assets, one is selected and recommended to the user.

Systems and methods for resolving ambiguous terms based on media asset chronology

Methods and systems are disclosed herein for updating a knowledge graph based on a user confirmation. A media guidance application receives a user communication and isolates a term of the user communication. The media guidance application identifies a candidate component of a knowledge graph associated with the term. The media guidance application requests user input directed to confirming whether the term is associated with the candidate component. In response to receiving the user input, the media guidance application modifies a strength of association between the term and the component.

Systems and methods for updating a knowledge graph through user input

Systems and methods for receiving product data for products featured in a media asset are described. In some embodiments, the system includes control circuitry that receives from a server data for a plurality of products featured in a media asset. The control circuitry generates for display a list including the plurality of products. The control circuitry determines whether a product in the list is associated with a coupon and/or a preferred vendor. The control circuitry visually distinguishes the product from other products in the list in response to determining that the product is associated with a coupon and/or a preferred vendor.

Systems and methods for receiving coupon and vendor data

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a communication from a user associated with multiple media assets. Based on the determination that the user has entered input into a user device, one is selected and recommended to the user.

Systems and methods for resolving ambiguous terms based on user input

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a communication from a user associated with multiple media assets. Based on the schedule of the media assets, one is selected and recommended to the user.

Systems and methods for resolving ambiguous terms based on media asset schedule

Systems and methods are described herein for presenting user selected scenes. A media guidance application may generate for display a listing for a media asset, wherein a play length of the media asset includes a non-selectable play length portion and a selectable play length portion. The media guidance application may generate for display a first scene option corresponding to a first scene and a second scene option corresponding to a second scene. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of the first or second scene option and incorporate the selected scene into the selectable play length portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may generate for display the media asset with the selected scene incorporated into the selectable play length portion.

Systems and methods for presenting user selected scenes

A media guidance application the media guidance application may determine end dates for user profile modifications based on real-life events. For example, as opposed to modifying a user profile for a predetermined about of time, the media guidance application may dynamically determine when to remove a user profile modification (or modify a user profile back to a previous state) based on subsequent user actions.

Methods and systems for determining end dates for user profile modifications based on real-life events

A media guidance application may determine user recovery times to real-life events. For example, the media guidance application may track the length of time that a particular user takes to recover from various real-life events.

Methods and systems for determining user recovery times to real-life event

A media guidance application may determine how long to modify user profiles based on real-life events. For example, in order to keep user profiles up-to-date (e.g., to reflect temporary changes to the tastes of a user), the media guidance application may temporarily change the criteria for recommending content based on real-life events.

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Barrington, IL, United States of America

Brian Craig Peterson