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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Laxmi A. Arte, Irving, TX (US);
Mukunda P. Raju, Irving, TX (US);
Enrique Ruiz-velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Laxmi A. Arte, Irving, TX (US);
Mukunda P. Raju, Irving, TX (US);
Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system collects a user's television (TV) program viewing activity and uses the collected TV program viewing activity to make video on demand (VOD) recommendations to other users via a VOD recommendation service. The system receives an indication that the user wishes to turn on a VOD recommendation service and deletes previously collected TV program viewing activity for the user based on the received indication. The system collects the user's recent TV program viewing activity, which occurs subsequent to the received indication and the deletion of the previously collected TV program viewing activity, and uses the user's collected recent TV program activity to make other VOD program recommendations to the user via the VOD recommendation service.