Pace Micro Technology Plc

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Petrus Gerardus Meuleman

Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Verhaegh

Srinivas Gutta

Astrid Mathilda Ferdinanda Dobbelaar

A method for generating a recommendation is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving at least one of a negative and positive example from one or more other users; and determining a recommendation for a user based on at least one of the negative and positive examples. The method can further include the step of generating a user profile for the user based on previous behavior of the user, in which case the determining step can include determining the recommendation based on the negative example and the user profile. The determining step can also include the step of determining the recommendation based on both of the negative and positive examples.

Collaborative sampling for implicit recommenders

The invention relates to an apparatus for selecting at least one program item to be stored on the basis of user preferences. The apparatus comprises a receiver () for obtaining program schedule data related to at least one program item, and a timer () arranged to ascertain a period of time in which at least one program item is to be stored, a user preference module () arranged to obtain user preferences for at least one program item to be stored in the ascertained period of time, and a selection unit () arranged to select, using the program schedule data and the user preferences, at least one program item to be stored over a long period of time which is substantially longer than regular periods of nonusage of the apparatus. The invention takes into consideration that the user preferences for storing the program items may depend on the period of time in which the program items are to be selected.

Selecting program items depending on a period of time in which the program items are to be stored

A plurality of programs is displayed on screen in a grid of cells. When program in a particular column of cells is pointed to by a cursor, the programs in neighboring columns are shifted to improve the time-alignment of the programs in the row of the cursor.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Petrus Gerardus Meuleman