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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2019
Applicant:

The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Romulo Pontual, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);

Sui-Ky Ringo Ling, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);

Raynold M. Kahn, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Gordon H. Chen, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Hans M. Hagberg, Redondo Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a viewer tracking module that determines a genre profile target representation based on program categories of watched events. A recommendation module determines a candidate program category representation for each program candidate of a plurality of program candidates from a plurality of program categories, compares the candidate program category representation for the plurality of candidates to the genre profile target representation, and determines a numerical value for each of the plurality of program candidates based on comparing. The system further includes a display displaying the program candidates ordered based of the numerical value for each.


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