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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2001
Chunzhi Wang, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Darrel Wayne Randall, Danville, IN (US);
Marc Aaron Kiefer, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Wanda G. Thompson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Carolynn Rae Johnson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Chunzhi Wang, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Darrel Wayne Randall, Danville, IN (US);
Marc Aaron Kiefer, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Wanda G. Thompson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Carolynn Rae Johnson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A television program selection system and method for selecting television programs for viewing or recording utilizing a guide schedule list which is received from a cable or satellite broadcaster for example, and comprises characteristics such as topic-theme, relevancy, and broadcast time data. The user can select a time period and optionally in addition a selection mode, which corresponds to one of the alternative algorithms used to sort the programs in the schedule and generate a list of suggested television programs to be displayed for the user to select a program. The default selection mode can use a conventional selection algorithm, and the optional selection mode can eliminate all programs which have any characteristics having a zero weighting.