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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:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2021
Applicant:

Tivo Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Berner, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Gabriel Dalbec, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

James Yee Liang Cheng, Fremont, CA (US);

Brian W. Beach, Columbia, IN (US);

Assignee:

TiVo Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01);
Abstract

A client determines that a user is attempting to access media program recommendations. In response to the determination, the client attempts to collect media program recommendations to be presented to the user. Media program recommendations may be derived locally by the client, by the client and a multimedia device locally connected with the client, by the client and one or more additional devices, etc. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a query from the client, one or more recipient devices or servers identify media program recommendations in a plurality of trending categories. The media program recommendations may be selected based at least in part on EPG data and audience research and measurement data. The media program recommendations collected by the client are presented to the user for further exploration. The client may be one of mobile phones, tablet computers, etc.


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