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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:
Jan. 29, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2009
Applicants:

Ya Xue, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Abha Moitra, Scotia, NY (US);

Steven Matt Gustafson, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ya Xue, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Abha Moitra, Scotia, NY (US);

Steven Matt Gustafson, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Assignee:

NBCUniversal Media, LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for recommending videos is presented. The method includes generating a cross-usage matrix based upon a data of video sessions for a plurality of videos, generating a temporal matrix based upon release dates of the plurality of videos, generating a cross-temporal matrix based upon the cross-usage matrix and the temporal matrix, computing a global video rank corresponding to each of the plurality of videos based upon the cross-temporal matrix, generating a similarity score corresponding to each pair of videos in the plurality of videos based upon meta-data of the plurality of videos, and generating a local video rank corresponding to each of the plurality of videos relative to another video in the plurality of videos based upon the generated cross-usage matrix, the computed global video rank and the generated similarity score.


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