Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Thomas Gewecke

Lewis S Ostrover

Gregory I Gewickey

Justin Herz

Essam Mahmoud

Greg Gewickey

Maria Seidman

Victoria L Colf

Vicky Colf

A method and apparatus for controlling a social robot includes providing a set of quantitative personality trait values, also called a 'personality profile' to a decision engine of the social robot. The personality profile is derived from a character portrayal in a fictional work, dramatic performance, or by a real-life person (any one of these sometime referred to herein as a 'source character'). The decision engine controls social responses of the social robot to environmental stimuli, based in part on the set of personality trait values. The social robot thereby behaves in a manner consistent with the personality profile for the profiled source character.

Control of social robot based on prior character portrayal

Media management for multi-user groups includes methods for determining a numeric score for recorded content being one of a popularity score or a relevance score, and for displaying a content library as an array of images each sized in accordance with its popularity score. The methods may also include social group features whereby a user may compare her content library with other libraries in her social group, and view relative popularity of content titles in the other libraries. The system includes numerous other features for content exploration, acquisition and management. An apparatus for performing the method comprises a processor coupled to a memory, the memory holding instructions for performing steps of the method as summarized above. Various aspects of the system may be implemented as a server or a client.

Media management for multi-user group

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Thomas Gewecke