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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Plano, TX (US);
Praveen Kumar Bandaru, Irving, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described, which provide for calculating a first relevance score for each content item of a set of content items, wherein the first relevance scores correspond to a relevance of each content item with respect to a query term according to a term-weighting scheme; calculating, for each content item, a program title relevance score; a media personality relevance score; a media network relevance score; and a live programming event relevance score; ranking each content item based on the program title relevance scores, the media personality relevance scores, the media network relevance scores, and the live event relevance scores; receiving a user input search term; generating, based on the search term, a user interface including multiple graphic icons corresponding to a number of the ranked content items; and presenting, via the user interface, the multiple graphic icons for selection by a user.